Comment on FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cool, bsd works fine for laptops, but the power management is pretty shit.
Also the wifi support too.
Otherwise I love my freebsd thinkpad, works great when plugged in, but again the wifi is painfully slow.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Can’t they just port the Linux drivers?
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Easier said than done, and they can’t copy because gpl.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Ahh right, BSD vs. GPL license.
IllNess@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Can the drivers be ported with a different license if it is not included with the BSD licensed operating system?
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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They partly were, they’re just not given nearly the same attention and are often terribly outdated and less engineered.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.