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, HTML_MESSAGE,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 [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18BE26517 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 17:03:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461FC428A5; Fri, 8 Mar 2024 02:03:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: from zimbra.anteil.com (zimbra.anteil.com [67.110.179.138]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D736A42894 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2024 02:03:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.anteil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D13B10054; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 11:03:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from zimbra.anteil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.anteil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MEo-K10QDsLp; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 11:03:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from zimbra.anteil.com (zimbra.anteil.com [192.168.1.22]) by zimbra.anteil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1701003C; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 11:03:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 11:03:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Capp To: jeffryrabramson@gmail.com Message-ID: <690043.1898.1709827421874.JavaMail.root@zimbraanteil> In-Reply-To: <9eb334edeb7568193000f8755704af7799169b17.camel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1897_13350340.1709827421873" X-Originating-IP: [192.168.200.43] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.7_GA_2476.RHEL4 (ZimbraWebClient - SAF3 (Linux)/6.0.7_GA_2473.UBUNTU8) Message-ID-Hash: PGMMXKBI7Q36OEYODPKXXDKGDAULX32V X-Message-ID-Hash: PGMMXKBI7Q36OEYODPKXXDKGDAULX32V X-MailFrom: jcapp@anteil.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: ------=_Part_1897_13350340.1709827421873 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, I cut my UNIX teeth on Xenix in the early 80's and have been using some flavor of *nix ever since. I'm a CLI guy and we run hundreds of Linux vm hosts and guests at work. I've steered clear of M$oft for nearly my entire career. I weaned my wife off of M$oft 20 years ago and just recently moved her from Linux to an iMac. When I'm at home, its MacOS. $.02 Jim From: "Jeffry R. Abramson" To: tuhs@tuhs.org Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2024 1:47:26 AM Subject: [TUHS] What do you currently use for your primary OS at home? 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 ------=_Part_1897_13350340.1709827421873 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <= div style=3D'font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'= >Hi Folks,

I cut my UNIX teeth on Xenix in the early 80'= s and have been using some flavor of *nix ever since.  I'm a CLI guy and we run hundreds of Linux vm hosts = and guests at work.  I've= steered clear of M$oft for nearly my entire career.

I weaned my wife off of M$oft 20 years ago and just recently moved = her from Linux to an iMac.

When I'm at home, its MacOS.


<= div>Jim


=

From: "Jeffry R. Abramson" <jeffryrabramson@gmail.= com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2024= 1:47:26 AM
Subject: [TUHS] What do you currently use for your pr= imary OS at home?

I've been using some variant of Linux (currently D= ebian 12) as my
primary OS for daily activities (email, web, programming= , photo
editing, etc.) for the past twenty years or so.  Prior to t= hat it was
FreeBSD for nearly ten years after short stints with Minix an= d Linux
when they first came out. At the time (early/mid 90's), I was wo= rking
for Bell Labs and had a ready supply of SCSI drives salvaged from<= br>retired equipment.  I bought a Seagate ST-01A ISA SCSI controller f= or
whatever 386/486 I owned at the time and installed Slackware floppy b= y
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 suggeste= d trying
the other SCSI driver.  This was the ncr driver that had b= een ported
from FreeBSD.  My stability problems went away and I dec= ided to take a
closer look at FreeBSD.  It reminded me of SunOS fro= m the good old pre-
System V era along with the version of Unix I had us= ed in grad school
in the late 70's/early 80's so I switched.

I ev= entually reverted back to Linux because it was clear that the user
commu= nity 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 c= omputing needs?

Jeff


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