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,,, NetBSD
This is the second BSD I tried after FreeBSD. I had a AMD333
(PII) System that survived a lot of abuse, the newer towers
I had since then had given up their ghost.
When I heard NetBSD updated i386 to solve the 2038 issue, I
decided to install it on this old mothballed system. The
intent was to use it as a backup system. I think version 6.0
was the first version with the fix and the version I installed.
The system was fun to use as a retro system. One thing I
found very useful was the rump kernel. I had some files on
an old MS-DOS Diskette I needed to get. When I mounted the
diskette on Linux, it crashed the system, FreeBSD ditto. So,
off to NetBSD. First attempt the same, but then I decided to
try rump. After a couple of attempts, I was able to get the
files off the diskette without issues. The NetBSD system did
not crash, but the rump kernel did on a couple of tries.
That alone sold be on NetBSD :)
I had to move a few years ago, so it was put in mothballs for
two reasons. The CDROM was constantly opening and closing, plus
in the new place, no place to set it up.
But it was brought out of retirement for the Old Computer
Challenge (occ) 3, where it performed very well.
Old Computer Challenge 3
I now run NetBSD on an inherited Thinkpad T430, that hardware
runs great with NetBSD 10.0.
I had NetBSD on a T420 along with OpenBSD, but NetBSD had
minor screen issues on the T420 with X and minor suspend
issues. So, the T420 is now fully dedicated to OpenBSD 7.5.
I have these systems to allow me to test changes I make to my
utilities to ensure they work on NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux.
By doing this I get good portability, plus I have been able
to find and correct many issues by testing on multiple systems.
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I really like NetBSD and their community. Plus pkgsrc is
awesome, I wish many other systems used this instead of their
homegrown package managers. Also, NetBSD far less pedantic
about licenses, it has a more relaxed outlook than OpenBSD
and even Linux in most cases.
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