Re: Not sure what to use
By: Ville to All on Wed Sep 03 2014 14:39:14

Arch or gento, which has moar apeal for neckbeards?

Neckbeards?

You want Slackware, if you stick with Linux. If you really want to impress the neckbeards, go Minix or BSD.

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Re: Not sure what to use
By: Khelair to Ville on Wed Sep 03 2014 03:58 pm

You want Slackware, if you stick with Linux. If you really want to impress the neckbeards, go Minix or BSD.

I must rock - I just fired up a MINIX VM.

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Re: Not sure what to use
By: Poindexter Fortran to Khelair on Thu Sep 04 2014 15:47:11

I must rock - I just fired up a MINIX VM.

*cackle*
Original Minix or the one that has the virtual memory capability? ;)

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Re: Not sure what to use
By: Khelair to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Sep 05 2014 03:56 pm

Original Minix or the one that has the virtual memory capability? ;)

Original. I go way back with it. I got bored at a job in 1995 and set up Minix on a 286 that I found underneath my desk. It became a challenge to see what I could get it to do. I ended up setting up SMTP, POP3, caching DNS and a web server on a 2 mbyte, 8 MHZ system.

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Hello Poindexter,

On 06 Sep 14 17:25, Poindexter Fortran wrote to Khelair:

Original Minix or the one that has the virtual memory
capability? ;)

Original. I go way back with it. I got bored at a job in 1995 and set
up Minix on a 286 that I found underneath my desk. It became a
challenge to see what I could get it to do. I ended up setting up
SMTP, POP3, caching DNS and a web server on a 2 mbyte, 8 MHZ system.

YOU ARE SO EFFING 1337 I THINK I JUST PISSED MYSELF!

I'm kidding, that's actually pretty damn cool. Though I think I need to shave now, just for posterity. :)

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Not sure what to use
By: Poindexter Fortran to Khelair on Sat Sep 06 2014 17:25:54

Original. I go way back with it. I got bored at a job in 1995 and set up Minix on a 286 that I found underneath my desk. It became a challenge to see what I could get it to do. I ended up setting up SMTP, POP3, caching DNS and a web server on a 2 mbyte, 8 MHZ system.

Nice!

Waaay back in the day, when I had just graduated from 8-bit Ataris to my first x86-based machine (an original 4.77MHz 8088, an Epson Equity I, if I recall correctly), I was very disappointed to realize that I was still pretty much stuck with DOS. Well, I mean I switched to 4DOS for awhile, and I think I tried some other command.com alternatives that were a little better, but seriously, 1 primary process? *BARF* So, my buddy that had been introducing me to Linux (as well as the other linux proponents around) told me about Minix. I snagged it, and was seriously amazed that it was all a microkernel architecture. Tried to go a lot farther with it, but I fell into a 486slc2-66 not long after and just made the hop to Linux at that point. I always wanted to get back into it, with a companion being Tannenbaum's text on operating systems, but I was too busy wasting time to do anything that productive at that point.
I almost had Minix-VMD (that's the VM utilizing one, right?) working, at one point, but kind of got distracted again. I probably would've been with Minix a lot longer on the XT, but wow, 640k limitation? Ugh.
When I get my primary computing iron back online I'm going to try out some of the old (and newer) operating systems on VMs again; I miss doing that kind of stuff. :)
That's pretty awesome that you're familiar with (and actively working with) Minix, though. I really didn't expect to see that. ;)

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Re: Minix!
By: Khelair to Poindexter Fortran on Sun Sep 07 2014 11:42 pm

I almost had Minix-VMD (that's the VM utilizing one, right?) working, at one point, but kind of got distracted again. I probably would've been with Minix a lot longer on the XT, but wow, 640k limitation? Ugh.

Minix-VMD is the one that used virtual memory and had an X server.

When I get my primary computing iron back online I'm going to try out some of the old (and newer) operating systems on VMs again; I miss doing that kind of stuff. :)

MINIX is a lot of fun and there are pre-made VMs floating around, too. It's a great learning tool, I learned more about TCP/IP networking by reading ne2000.c than I did in a networking class.

I wish I had the backups from that first system -- I think that was my first web page ever.

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Re: Not sure what to use
By: Ville to All on Wed Sep 03 2014 02:39 pm

Arch or gento, which has moar apeal for neckbeards?

Neckbeards? :) Be careful who you use that term with, some people are a bit sensitive.

I on the other hand am not "PC" ;)

Anyways, to answer your question, these days it seems the mainstream "neckbeard" type individual appreciates arch a bit more.

-Denny

Denny's Computers - Not for profit computer repair - dpccom.blogspot.com

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Re: Not sure what to use
By: Hylian to Ville on Fri Apr 03 2015 05:54 am

Anyways, to answer your question, these days it seems the mainstream "neckbeard" type individual appreciates arch a bit more.

Never thought I'd see "neckbeards" subcategorized into mainstream and fringe NBs.

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On 09/03/2014 12:39 PM, Ville wrote:

Arch or gento, which has moar apeal for neckbeards?

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Oracle Solaris or Slackware.
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Re: Re: Not sure what to use
By: Gandolf to Ville on Sat Apr 04 2015 10:14 pm

yes agreed


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