[TUHS] What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?
Mike Markowski
mike.ab3ap at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 08:32:52 AEST 2024
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 1:57 AM Jeffry R. Abramson <jeffryrabramson at 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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