[TUHS] Re: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?

[Mike Markowski <mike.ab3ap@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 1:57 AM Jeffry R. Abramson <jeffryrabramson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> ...Thinking of looking for something
> simpler and was just wondering what do other old timers use for their
> primary home computing needs?
>
> Jeff
>

Jeff and all,

We started with FreeBSD in 1992 soon after getting married.  My wife is a
computer scientist (I'm EE) and we loaded 3.5" diskette after diskette and
then she worked on finding a graphics card driver. :-)  In more recent
times we ran gentoo but that was ordeal to keep up to date.  Like a water
cooled VW, tinkering is almost a daily requirement.  In recent years we use
Ubuntu distribution and enjoy it.  My wife likes the ease of maintenance
and as an RF engr I enjoy the ease of acquiring tools, including
compilers.  Thanks, Clem, for pointing me to ifort a year or two ago!
(1968 F-IV RF propagation code revived at https://udel.edu/~mm/itm/ in the
retro computing section.)

I also use Raspberry Pi 3's in PiDP 8/I (https://udel.edu/~mm/pidp8i/) and
11/70.  I wonder how long till a R-Pi is enough for a work station...

Mike Markowski

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