[TUHS] What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Mar 8 16:28:22 AEST 2024
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, Larry McVoy wrote:
> So I'm a SunOS guy, got there just after SunOS 4.0, contributed to 4.1,
> really contributed to 4.1.1 and 4.1.3. I loved SunOS.
SunOS 4.1.4: pure bliss... But we know what happened next :-(
> FreeBSD and me got reconnected when Netflix wanted to hire me a while
> back. While the kernel may be OK (it's not, ask me how I know, I walked
> the code), FreeBSD is stuck in the 1980s. Raise your hand if you have
> installed FreeBSD in the last 20 years. That "UI" for partitioning the
> disks, so arcane. The whole install experience is _awful_.
Well, OK, in approx order :-)
As a FreeBSD nut, consider yourself asked...
User since, oh, when BSD/OS got borged, I guess.
And I've seen worse UIs... Mind you, that SunOS installer was great!
Now, hands up all those who partially overlapped root with swap etc (on
any *nix box)...
> SunOS was a bug fixed BSD, so I really loved BSD. But BSD is so dead it
> is not even funny. Linux is light years ahead. Here is an example from
> more than 20 years ago. I was installing RedHat Linux and the machine I
> was installing on didn't have a mouse. The installer was graphical and
> it was just easier to tab through the options than go find a mouse.
You like that abomination known as "systemd"? As for mice, I always kept
a couple in the drawer (serial, RF, etc).
> I'd love it if BSD had kept up but it has not. Linux is way better.
> Yeah, all the bloat is annoying but we are not running on 64KB PDP-lls.
> L1 is that size, L2 and L3 are bigger. Main memory is many orders of
> magnitude bigger, I'm typing this on a 32GB memory laptop. It's fine.
I'm typing this on a Mac 8GB laptop, into my FreeBSD 512MB (yes) server
(it works; I can't afford anything better on my pension).
Oh, I've also used OpenBSD, but since you practically need permission to
even fart then I'd only recommend it as a firewall.
It's all abut horses for courses: OpenBSD for a firewall, FreeBSD for its
amazing ports, NetBSD to run on weird hardware, and a Mac for fun :-)
The only reason that I have a Penguin (if I can just revive it) was to run
stuff that doesn't seem to exist elsewhere; I haven't missed it...
-- Dave
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