Sorry, the "less portable" argument doesn't fly with me.

They should just document their chips. Say two kids that are told to
share candy. all Apple computers from the iMac to current models. 6
kernel gcc compilation error for the us.

And if the company goes out of business or decides they can no longer be
bothered what then?

for linux there is working solution, why do it again? What do they have
to gain by not distributing it?

It isn't a one way street, you know.

2 hours agoLinux help Using external ram to cache read.

The OpenBSD project then offered to send me a nForce based motherboard
so that I could help Jonathan with the development.

" His plea went out to the larger companies, "financially we are under
strain, and it is not letting us grow any of our bigger plans. Why
wouldn't that be important? Jeremy Andrews: Each OpenBSD release
includes a theme song that goes along with the release's artwork.

Jeremy Andrews: What are you majoring in at the university?

Those selfish people apparently don't realize that OpenSSH-p is
maintained by OpenBSD people, who don't need to do so, of course. How
about behave like an adult.

This is kind of sad since I still have a lot of respect for most FreeBSD
developers. However, I don't think that's the gist of the message.
that's the beauty of the BSD licence. The small donations do help,
thanks guys, but it iskind of like feeding our project in little pieces,
and it does notallow us to do big things, or plan ahead for big things.
Jeremy Andrews: What are some other OpenBSD projects you've been
involved in since those early days? more articles please!

Jonathan Gray: A lot of vendors seem to create crazy abstraction layers
that blow out the complexity of drivers so they can have shared logic in
drivers they provide for different operating systems.