From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A242221B for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 15:23:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC665428BA; Fri, 8 Mar 2024 00:23:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 452B2428A6 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2024 00:23:33 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id D571235E919; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:23:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:23:32 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: "Jeffry R. Abramson" Message-ID: <20240307142332.GH2252@mcvoy.com> References: <9eb334edeb7568193000f8755704af7799169b17.camel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9eb334edeb7568193000f8755704af7799169b17.camel@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: 4YEN2AKZVHPDI4KWKSM37VDXLHGCGVBV X-Message-ID-Hash: 4YEN2AKZVHPDI4KWKSM37VDXLHGCGVBV X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: First it was Slackware with ctwm, then I wanted more stuff to work out of the box and went to xubuntu. Been there for 20+ years. On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 01:47:26AM -0500, Jeffry R. Abramson wrote: > I've been using some variant of Linux (currently Debian 12) as my > primary OS for daily activities (email, web, programming, photo > editing, etc.) for the past twenty years or so. Prior to that it was > FreeBSD for nearly ten years after short stints with Minix and Linux > when they first came out. At the time (early/mid 90's), I was working > for Bell Labs and had a ready supply of SCSI drives salvaged from > retired equipment. I bought a Seagate ST-01A ISA SCSI controller for > whatever 386/486 I owned at the time and installed Slackware floppy by > floppy. > > When I upgraded to a Pentium PC for home, Micron P90 I think, I > installed a PCI SCSI controller (Tekram DC-390 equipped with an > NCR53c8xx chip) to make use of my stash of drives. Under Linux it was > never entirely stable. I asked on Usenet and someone suggested trying > the other SCSI driver. This was the ncr driver that had been ported > from FreeBSD. My stability problems went away and I decided to take a > closer look at FreeBSD. It reminded me of SunOS from the good old pre- > System V era along with the version of Unix I had used in grad school > in the late 70's/early 80's so I switched. > > 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? > > Jeff > -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat