Re: FC14 to FC15 Preinstall stuck, replond.xml and repos NOT updated!

J G Miller <miller@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a feeling that openBSD is the most portable of all
operating systems, with the widest possible hardware support.

No, as openBSD is much more controlled in its releases, but much
less used, than Linux (any distro) the hardware support always has
lagged behind Linux, expecially for bleeding-edge hardware.
Hardware manufacturers always already had problems releasing Linux
drivers for their hardware, the (different) BSD kernel still needs
another driver/module, which mostly has to be ported FROM the Linux
driver.
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