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This is a dual Pentium Pro running NetBSD.
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Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

[?]Anders Gulden Olstad »
@andersgo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

But removal of OTP functionality in the upcoming 7.8 was real a shit.

It's a paradox that I have to remove from our list of approved operating systems due to this, while working in the infosec business.

    Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

    [?]ltning »
    @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

    The feeling when some of the Grand Masters and Architects of #UNIX mocks me for being crazy to run modern #NetBSD on decidedly-not-modern hardware while also pointing out how *incredibly* powerful this 386sx/486-class hardware is and what an absurdly huge amount of memory 16MB is compared to what *they* had while, you know, developing UNIX..

    #EuroBSDCon #RunBSD #Retrocomputing #Fanboi #StarStruck

    Marshall Kirk McKusick, Eric Allman, a couple of (much) younger BSD developers and myself hovering over an old open-frame PC build which is busy booting NetBSD. Sponsor pull-up poster for Entersekt/Modirum (my employer) in the background.

    Alt...Marshall Kirk McKusick, Eric Allman, a couple of (much) younger BSD developers and myself hovering over an old open-frame PC build which is busy booting NetBSD. Sponsor pull-up poster for Entersekt/Modirum (my employer) in the background.

      Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

      [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
      @jaypatelani@bsd.network

      A alternative? /Hurd shows microkernel dream is alive

      theregister.com/2025/08/18/deb

        [?]nixCraft 🐧 »
        @nixCraft@mastodon.social

        This is AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System
        lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.h Sadly it is not updated any more (last update was in 2010).

        A screeshot of amiwm is an X window manager for Linux and Unix.

        Alt...A screeshot of amiwm is an X window manager for Linux and Unix.

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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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            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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                [?]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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