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Abramson" , COFF X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: (redirected from TUHS) What do you currently use for your primary OS at home? List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 5:52=E2=80=AFPM Greg 'groggy' Lehey = wrote: > On Thursday, 7 March 2024 at 1:47:26 -0500, Jeffry R. Abramson wrote: > > I eventually reverted back to Linux because it was clear that the > > user community was getting much larger, I was using it > > professionally at work and there was just a larger range of > > applications available. Lately, I find myself getting tired of the > > bloat and how big and messy and complicated it has all gotten. > > Thinking of looking for something simpler and was just wondering > > what do other old timers use for their primary home computing needs? > > I'm surprised how few of the responders use BSD. My machines all > (currently) run FreeBSD, with the exception of a Microsoft box > (distress.lemis.com) that I use remotely for photo processing. I've > tried Linux (used to work developing Linux kernel code), but I > couldn't really make friends with it. It sounds like our reasons are > similar. > > More details: > > 1977-1984: CP/M, 86-DOS > 1984-1990: MS-DOS > 1991-1992: Inactive UNIX > 1992-1997: BSD/386, BSD/OS > 1997-now: FreeBSD I'm a bit surprised by this, as well. I consider myself very fortunate in that the first computer we had at home was a Macintosh (the 1985, 512K model; the so-called "Fat Mac"). I say I was fortunate for this because the machine really gave a very consistent experience compared to the 8-bit micros and the IBM PC that were common at the time; I didn't realize how important that was until much later, but once I did, I considered myself very lucky indeed. The next machine I had was a 486 running DOS. From there, I had a short stint running COHERENT, the MWC clone of (essentially) 7th Edition. Then I ran NetBSD for a few months, and then FreeBSD. I stayed on FreeBSD for a while, until sometime in the 4.9-era when `periodic(8)` got added. At that point, the growing complexity got to me. My friend Scott Schwartz had been telling me about Plan 9, and it was available around that time, so I installed it; that was my primary environment for a few years until I landed on a Macintosh. Nowadays, I sit in front of a Mac Studio as my workstation, and I have a bunch of other machines running a bunch of other stuff around the house: Plan 9 runs much of the home infrastructure (DNS, DHCP, that kind of stuff). There's a rinky dink FreeBSD print server running my ancient laser printer. There's an OpenBSD machine downstairs that runs backup DNS and consoles. I've got machines running FreeBSD, OpenBSD-current, and DragonFly, plus a Linux workstation that I run headless that I use for stuff that requires KVM. There are a couple of Raspberry Pi's and an x86 Linux machine that all speak AX.25 and are all connected to various (amateur) radios, an Alpha running VMS, and emulated VAXen, PDP-11s, mainframes, Multics, Pr1me, CDC, and a few other weird machines running different legacy OSes. I never gravitated towards Linux as a desktop machine, really. It has always felt very fiddly to me. I don't miss FreeBSD on the desktop, really. - Dan C.