NetBSD was my favourite playing around OS from the late 1990s to about 2010. Worked on any old crap I had lying around which was mostly thoroughly obsolete SPARC and x86 kit. Did the job. Never went wrong. Good documentation built in. Netbooted on anything.
No idea where it is now but this post has inspired me to have a look.
eahm 1 hours ago [-]
Awesome!
Two things:
1) “We were” (sorry I had to do it).
2) Why NetBSD? Why not FreeBSD or Debian or heck even Ubuntu Server or RHEL/CentOS (forgot it was 2005)?
Glad you got the spend more time with the family!
clort 49 minutes ago [-]
As to why, Gary didn't say.. or even contribute again, so we could surmise it was a made-up name to make sure the company he worked for wasn't identified, but some of the replies to his mail went into more detail about why they did, you can find them here
I'm considering initiating a campaign to influence a community space that I'm a part of into running NetBSD on some low-risk infrastructure that we may adopt.
whalesalad 55 minutes ago [-]
I have been wanting to do this for a while. I have used FreeBSD and OpenBSD in server or embedded environments, but never as a desktop. And I have zero experience with NetBSD or DragonflyBSD but want to play with those too.
tolerance 18 minutes ago [-]
I enjoyed the time I spent browsing the web and reading ebooks while running OpenBSD on a Thinkpad. The same goes for hosting a web page on a VPS I used to rent. I found that what people say about it is true: the documentation is great. To the extent that I needed to tinker I gained a fair amount of coherence about how things worked. This is sort of what I want the guys in my community to experience for themselves.
leecommamichael 1 hours ago [-]
> This also lead to more arguments with
the wife (which leads to a decrease in other things... ;)
I love the subtlety of the dual-use closing-parenthesis here.
pelasaco 8 minutes ago [-]
NetBSD is the only Unix that IMO still fun to hack on.. no AI, just hack..
whalesalad 50 minutes ago [-]
> NetBSD during peak hours, our httpd servers can deal with 35
requests per minute(internal and external).
even in 2005 this is abysmal. no reflection of netbsd tho - likely a terrible app.
kev009 15 minutes ago [-]
The way it's written is ambiguous as it could also just mean the peak demand rate, not a capacity peak. I was doing some benchmarks for something recently and noticed how tricky it is to capture all the nuance of a test in prose.
alexpotato 17 minutes ago [-]
> 12MB email attachments
It was a different time.
tech_army 51 minutes ago [-]
Cool stuff
Rendered at 21:25:39 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
No idea where it is now but this post has inspired me to have a look.
Two things:
1) “We were” (sorry I had to do it).
2) Why NetBSD? Why not FreeBSD or Debian or heck even Ubuntu Server or RHEL/CentOS (forgot it was 2005)?
Glad you got the spend more time with the family!
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/
I love the subtlety of the dual-use closing-parenthesis here.
even in 2005 this is abysmal. no reflection of netbsd tho - likely a terrible app.
It was a different time.