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Site description
This is a dual Pentium Pro running NetBSD.
Check out the floppy museum for hints on how to get in touch. Or, you know, ping me on the fediverse. :)
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@ltning@weirdr.net

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Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

[?]Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

When I complain that some software (or its dependencies) doesn't work on *BSD but requires Linux, I'm not criticizing Linux. For me, it's not an OS battle, but a matter of freedom and avoiding a dangerous and rampant computing monoculture. And when people reply to me with "well, just use it on Linux" - while they're giving me sensible advice - they're missing the crucial point: if it ONLY runs on Linux, it's not Linux's fault, but we are, precisely, creating a dangerous monoculture.

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    [?]Ltning »
    @ltning@weirdr.net

    I'm having the weirdest problem on this machine .. Trying to use on to profile , sometimes it works sometimes it will not actually give me any data (just print the headers). I'm using the hotuser script from the OpenDTrace toolkit.

    Another issue is that the only way to stop dtrace is to kill -9 it, which takes the watched process with it in the fall..

    Halp? :)

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      Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

      [?]Ltning »
      @ltning@weirdr.net

      I haven't obsessed this much with my desktop since I was .. much younger. Trying to make it functional and purrty on 30 year old hardware is challenging but fun. Thanks to and the fact that most old X and tools are still around and do all the things they always did - and haven't bloated much in those 30 years - helps a lot.

      I'll take Wayland when it comes my way without me having to lift a finger, but until then I'm glad the X Window System is still around. Keeps this old hardware useful.

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        [?]Ltning »
        @ltning@weirdr.net

        I had on another 286 for a while, and there's some 16-bit "port" of Linux that is not as old as it should be. And of course the venerable OS/2 1.x, and a few actual variants as you point out. I didn't know about V6on286, that's a beautiful little nugget, thank you!

        All of those things are absolutely wonderful and make many of todays software developers look ... spoiled? What I want, however - and what I love doing - is making this old hardware do stuff its makers never dreamt of, things that are as far removed from their time as possible. That's why I will, if permits, run bleeding edge BSD on a 286-on-486steroids, and why I run web+ftp+irc servers (yes, multitaskign) on one 286 and multiple BBS nodes on a 386 - like one used to do, of course.

        I cannot state often enough how amazing it is that there's still software developed today that will work under such constraints.


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          [?]Ltning »
          @ltning@weirdr.net

          Baking my next project, a thread...
          [Edit - fixed attachment]

          I've said somewhere I want to run NetBSD on a . Now obviously that's not actually possible, but I should be able to do the next best thing - run it on a 286 upgraded to a 486SLC!

          But wait, most 286es only support 4MB RAM, although the ol' chum of a chip supports a whopping 16MB. So I have to find a motherboard that can do this.

          Thing is, I already have one. See picture. But it's currently occupied doing very important Enterprisy stuff - it runs IBM OS/2 1.3 Extended Edition..but at least I know what I need!

          otherboard with a soldered 20MHz 286 CPU and a Citygate chipset.

          Alt...otherboard with a soldered 20MHz 286 CPU and a Citygate chipset.

            Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

            [?]ltning »
            @ltning@larry.weirdr.net

            for the win: Using ctwm (window manager), urxvt (terminal emulator), mrxvt (tabbed terminal emulator), pload (network monitor) and, in the spirit of the 90s, hot-babe (CPU monitor), I have a nice and borderline usable "desktop" on this 486.

            Until starts doing work of course. Then I just sit back and wait.

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              Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

              [?]Ltning »
              @ltning@weirdr.net

              I did a thing so I don't have to wait 20+ seconds to SSH into (or out of) my running .

              https://github.com/ltning/sshbench


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                [?]Ltning »
                @ltning@weirdr.net

                There are only hot girls here. See proof in attachment.
                Note that the compiler process is running with nice so as not to make the poor lady freeze too much.


                Picture of NetBSD X11 desktop with htop(1) and hot-babe CPU monitor.

                Alt...Picture of NetBSD X11 desktop with htop(1) and hot-babe CPU monitor.

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                  April :verified8: boosted

                  [?]Ltning »
                  @ltning@weirdr.net

                  And here we are. is simply amazing.


                  Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.

                  Alt...Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.

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                    [?]Ltning »
                    @ltning@weirdr.net

                    Attempting to install #NetBSD on this 486.. gonna need some more work before that works I'm afraid.

                    (Read the alt text for more info)
                    #retrocomputing #moreram

                    Kernel messages from NetBSD 10.1 on an AMD 486. Panics due to low memory after showing interesting sound cards detected. No correlation I'm sure - only including to brag.

                    Alt...Kernel messages from NetBSD 10.1 on an AMD 486. Panics due to low memory after showing interesting sound cards detected. No correlation I'm sure - only including to brag.

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                      Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                      [?]Ltning »
                      @ltning@weirdr.net

                      Yeah I agree. It's absolutely awesome - also that (and all the other variants) are first-class citizens. Thank you, @grunfink@comam.es!

                      CC: @rubenerd@bsd.network

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                        [?]Ltning »
                        @ltning@weirdr.net

                        Damn I like the whole css-or-bust approach to styling that has. I mean I know many (most?) others do a bit of the same but this is just delightful.

                        So..TLS aside, what is the most lightweight reverse proxy I can use instead of nginx in front of this thing? You know, in case I would like to move the instance from this beefy PPro to, say, a or a Wii running ? :)


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                          [?]Ltning »
                          @ltning@weirdr.net

                          After a fair bit of fiddling, this instance is now .. operational, I think? And this is officially my first post here.

                          See also my main fediverse presence: @ltning@anduin.net

                          About this instance, at the time of writing:
                          - OS: 10
                          - Reverse proxy: nginx
                          - CPU: Dual Pentium Pro Overdrive, 333MHz
                          - RAM: 512MB EDO
                          - NIC: 3Com 100Mbit PCI NIC
                          - Storage: SATA 1.0 (CF and SSD)


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