Posted by
michael
on from the at-least-it's-not-Microsoft dept.
Kwantus writes: "It's not Earth-shattering news,
but at least it's not about Microsoft.
NetBSD 1.5.1
is out." Wow, with that kind of introduction who wouldn't want to run out and try NetBSD? :)
netbsd security and recommendations.
by
saintlupus
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· Score: 3
woo hoo, now i can run an actual release version of netbsd without the obscure kernel race problem from a few weeks back.
you know, i was never really into the unix style operating systems until last year, and i'm really glad i started with netbsd rather than linux. there's nothing like a completely bare-bones install to make you figure out how all the parts actually fit together. when i installed linuxppc for the first time, i was amazed at how obfuscated the actual structure of the system was in comparison. i recommend net/openbsd to everyone i know who wants to "learn unix" (haven't tried free, can't comment on it) and every one has come back to thank me.
--saint ----
Re:what i've learned from NetBSD
by
saintlupus
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· Score: 3
it was my first Unix too, on a Mac IIvx. i completely agree with you that the best way to learn Unix is by complete, terrible, helpless immersion until you learn to love it.
hear hear. i remember when i first got it to boot, i was incredibly excited. there i was, with a command line to a powerful os on my old mac iicx.
then i realized i had nothing to do with it. nothing. i didn't know how to use vi or ed, so i couldn't configure anything enough to use my network connection and get a different editor. it's amazing how fast you can figure out the syntax for "ifconfig" when you really have to.
* no computer is "useless"
...and every time i have to wipe a machine at work to send to the recycler's, i grit my teeth. this is stuff that could actually be useful to people, low end power macs and pentiums. but they're too slow to run mac os 9 or windows 98, so off to the knacker's. i've got a powermac 7100 sitting next to the g4 in my cubicle. i use it for running older software, including operating systems. works like a charm.
for all the claims about how linux runs on slower, older boxen, i have yet to see a distribution (except maybe slack) that really works well on a 486, let alone a 386 or a 68030.
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woo hoo, now i can run an actual release version of netbsd without the obscure kernel race problem from a few weeks back.
you know, i was never really into the unix style operating systems until last year, and i'm really glad i started with netbsd rather than linux. there's nothing like a completely bare-bones install to make you figure out how all the parts actually fit together. when i installed linuxppc for the first time, i was amazed at how obfuscated the actual structure of the system was in comparison. i recommend net/openbsd to everyone i know who wants to "learn unix" (haven't tried free, can't comment on it) and every one has come back to thank me.
--saint----
it was my first Unix too, on a Mac IIvx. i completely agree with you that the best way to learn Unix is by complete, terrible, helpless immersion until you learn to love it.
hear hear. i remember when i first got it to boot, i was incredibly excited. there i was, with a command line to a powerful os on my old mac iicx.
then i realized i had nothing to do with it. nothing. i didn't know how to use vi or ed, so i couldn't configure anything enough to use my network connection and get a different editor. it's amazing how fast you can figure out the syntax for "ifconfig" when you really have to.
* no computer is "useless"
for all the claims about how linux runs on slower, older boxen, i have yet to see a distribution (except maybe slack) that really works well on a 486, let alone a 386 or a 68030.
--saint----