NetBSD-Desktop archive   Re: =?utf-
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ion?=  On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, David Brownlee wrote:  That concerns
me because the whole philosophy behind the project is "of course
it runs NetBSD".  There's not much point using NetBSD as a basis
for a desktop project and then turning around and violating its
most basic tenet.  By that reasoning you might argue we should
not have the existing desktop packages as they would not run on
a vax? likewise the i386 linux compat code from the kernel and
x86 packages from pkgsrc, oh and xen too.  No, I don't think I'd
go that far.  Andrew and I have different opinions on the value
of supporting older hardware :), but we would both agree that
netbsd should take full advantage of and be highly performant on
modern hardware, and the fact that certain software or features
will not work on older machines (x86 or otherwise) should not
prevent it from being enabled in a netbsd-desktop package
targetted at fast x86 boxes.  That's