Comment on FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework.

• InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Easier said than done, and they can’t copy because gpl.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ahh right, BSD vs. GPL license.

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  • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      They partly were, they’re just not given nearly the same attention and are often terribly outdated and less engineered.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

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