From: Michael Usher via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: "Jeffry R. Abramson" <jeffryrabramson@gmail.com>,
Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:45:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56a3bcc1-ed39-41d1-870c-d9855e776307@Spark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240307142332.GH2252@mcvoy.com>
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SImple, reliable and useful is the key.
Mobile devices are iphone / ipad. Fixed workstation is a hackintosh, but I'm thinking of buying an M3 mac mini. My kids prefer a mix of Ubuntu or Windows.
Home servers are a mixture - proxmox, opnsense, truenas core + scale, xcp-ng for some VMs for study (previously ESXi free tier). Twenty years ago I was running gentoo with a nightly build. But now I'm moving from Ubuntu over to Debian 12. This is also my homelab -- I learn by trying new stuff.
For my ex-father-in-law's business which I manage, I selected more easily supported platforms - Cisco for some routers, switches, phones and Call Manager Express + Unity, Ubiquiti for most of his APs, vmware for VMs (Apache, mySQL, mailcow...), pfsense, truenas core, lots of Ubuntu server and ArcaOS (OS2).
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Michael Usher
University of California, Santa Cruz
On Mar 7, 2024 at 06:23 -0800, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>, wrote:
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-07 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-07 6:47 [TUHS] " Jeffry R. Abramson
2024-03-07 9:09 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2024-03-07 11:04 ` Marc Donner
2024-03-07 13:08 ` Ben Kallus
2024-03-07 13:16 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-03-08 1:15 ` Jeffry R. Abramson
2024-03-08 3:42 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-08 3:57 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-08 3:58 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-08 6:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-08 11:23 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-03-08 14:42 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-08 15:01 ` Marc Donner
2024-03-08 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-08 15:42 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-08 15:45 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-08 15:50 ` Will Senn
2024-03-08 15:28 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-08 23:18 ` [TUHS] FreeBSD kernel not OK? (was: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-03-08 23:43 ` [TUHS] " Will Senn
2024-03-08 23:50 ` John Floren via TUHS
2024-03-08 23:57 ` Michael Huff
2024-03-09 0:16 ` [TUHS] Re: FreeBSD kernel not OK? Alexis
2024-03-09 17:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-03-09 9:53 ` Harald Arnesen via TUHS
2024-03-09 15:34 ` Gregg Levine
2024-03-08 23:45 ` [TUHS] Re: FreeBSD kernel not OK? (was: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?) segaloco via TUHS
2024-03-07 13:31 ` [TUHS] Re: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home? Brantley Coile
2024-03-07 14:23 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-07 14:45 ` Michael Usher via TUHS [this message]
2024-03-07 14:38 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-03-07 15:40 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-07 15:56 ` Thomas Kellar
2024-03-07 16:12 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-07 16:33 ` ron minnich
2024-03-07 18:32 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-07 16:03 ` Jim Capp
2024-03-07 20:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-07 21:21 ` Adam Thornton
2024-03-07 22:25 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-07 22:20 ` Åke Nordin
2024-03-07 22:32 ` Mike Markowski
2024-03-07 23:58 ` Will Senn
2024-03-08 16:23 ` Stuff Received
2024-03-07 19:41 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-08 16:09 ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2024-03-09 10:07 ` Wesley Parish
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