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> Even if some of the BSD systems support multiple architectures...In contrast, Linux has to work on a very large number of embedded architectures

Doesn't NetBSD target an absurd number of platforms?

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OpenBSD also still targets like 7 or 8 arches and did some bunch more a while ago

As does FreeBSD, and of course those non-x86 platforms are where the pain points are re: RNG -- same as Linux. Tytso is just unfamiliar with the BSD landscape.

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