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, 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 [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9FE22285 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 15:37:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAAB428C0; Fri, 8 Mar 2024 00:37:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minun.buric.co (minun.buric.co [51.15.8.196]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E8A428B2 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2024 00:37:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minun.buric.co (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 39FAC35C06EF; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:38:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minun.buric.co (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C69F35C03E5 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:38:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:38:15 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Nickolas X-X-Sender: mary@sd-119843.dedibox.fr To: tuhs@tuhs.org In-Reply-To: <9eb334edeb7568193000f8755704af7799169b17.camel@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <9eb334edeb7568193000f8755704af7799169b17.camel@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID-Hash: ZVT2UREZTNUYCJAQTE5VW7MCDOUFRH3Q X-Message-ID-Hash: ZVT2UREZTNUYCJAQTE5VW7MCDOUFRH3Q X-MailFrom: usotsuki@buric.co 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 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: On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, 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. My current daily driver is Debian 11 (because I don't have the room for a distro upgrade). Went back and forth between Debian and Windows since about 2005. I'd thought of trying to do my own rewrite of SVR4/4.2 for kicks, but I don't think I'd be able to daily-drive it and I wanted to start with an existing kernel - and getting started has proven to be about a pain. (I've proposed both Linux, with clang and musl, and NetBSD, with clang and its own libc, as the starting points.) > 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. No wonder, really, given the common ancestry. > 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? I think they've all gotten bloaty anymore. -uso.