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List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --000000000000de88d8061318aa0d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Daily driver is MacOS. Local network services, mostly Linux on amd64. Retrocomputing, mostly Linux on Raspberry Pi. On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:47=E2=80=AFPM Jeffry R. Abramson < jeffryrabramson@gmail.com> 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 > > > --000000000000de88d8061318aa0d Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Daily driver is MacOS.=C2=A0 Local network services, mostl= y Linux on amd64.=C2=A0 Retrocomputing, mostly Linux on Raspberry Pi.

On= Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:47=E2=80=AFPM Jeffry R. Abramson <jeffryrabramson@gmail.com> 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.=C2=A0 Prior to that it was<= br> 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.=C2=A0 I bought a Seagate ST-01A ISA SCSI controller for<= br> 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.=C2=A0 Under Linux it was=
never entirely stable.=C2=A0 I asked on Usenet and someone suggested trying=
the other SCSI driver.=C2=A0 This was the ncr driver that had been ported from FreeBSD.=C2=A0 My stability problems went away and I decided to take a=
closer look at FreeBSD.=C2=A0 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.=C2=A0 Thinking of looking for something<= br> simpler and was just wondering what do other old timers use for their
primary home computing needs?

Jeff


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