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FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework.(www.phoronix.com)

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InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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Easier said than done, and they can’t copy because gpl.

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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Ahh right, BSD vs. GPL license.

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IllNess@infosec.pub
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Can the drivers be ported with a different license if it is not included with the BSD licensed operating system?

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InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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Absolutely.

They partly were, they’re just not given nearly the same attention and are often terribly outdated and less engineered.

Also they aren’t tested as thoroughly, there was a call for hardware by the FreeBSD team not that long ago that I can’t find, they simply don’t have the same kind of resources.

Most FreeBSD dev is focused on server hardware like for Netflix and its ilk, I don’t know many other people who use it as a daily driver.

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