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Abramson" To: tuhs@tuhs.org Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:47:26 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.46.4-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID-Hash: 2UIQDE6L3UY454VHA6ZI4WW2HLMQJZGV X-Message-ID-Hash: 2UIQDE6L3UY454VHA6ZI4WW2HLMQJZGV X-MailFrom: jeffryrabramson@gmail.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 X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jeffryrabramson@gmail.com Subject: [TUHS] 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: 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.=20 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