@NebulaTide also also, make some noise if you send them a FreeBSD patch, I'll do the same for NetBSD. The sysctl incantations are slightly different

@NebulaTide Yeah, definitely. The hostility towards portability from some corners is very upsetting; I haven't seen anything like that since trying to send Minix-compatibility patches to projects in the late 1990's. I'm quite concerned that my preferred DE isn't very kool anymore.

I also think it's important to remember that of course most projects will have inconsequential Linux-isms in them, the same way so many had commercial unix-isms in them in the 90's. And as long as the reaction to BSD or illumos patches is "cool, thanks!" those are the good ones, and we should encourage them

@NebulaTide That sort of thing has been going on since forever, and is IMO fine. As long as thé project is happy to accept and maintain portability patches.

Ripping out support for non-Linux OSes is where things go wrong