3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
10:51 a.m.
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 07:37:18 -0400
David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
I beg to differ. I've run NetBSD for a long time
on my old (pre-iMac)
PowerPC Macs as well as the 68k series because it still supports
them fairly well. Recent releases (there was a gap from 1.6 to 5.0 where
I didn't upgrade) have been really unpleasantly slow, primarily
because of bloat in the userland.
It makes for a difficult situation; I'd gladly just run 1.6, but any of the
common third-party userland components (Apache, etc.) have the
same problem, and I'd want to be running the latest for security's
sake.
Well. See. Thats how it goes. Time is not standing still. Things
evolve. Things change. Things grow. Thats live. If software, be it an
OS like NetBSD or applications / server daemons like apache, would not
keep up with the general growth of things in the entire eco-system,
it will die.
If you run a current release of a software system, you have to expect
that it needs at least a halfway current hardware to run on.
If you have really old hardware you have to accept that current
software will run slow. If you want fast software on ancient hardware
you have to use contemporary, i.e. ancient software.
If you want "modern" features, you have to run modern software and this
in turn requires "modern" hardware. You have to pay a price for the
improved functionality. Either it will run slow on your 11/730 or you
have to upgrade your hardware. Elsewise stay with older software that
runs fast but lacks newish featurism.
Nevertheless: NetBSD is still compact and efficient in comparision to
most Linux distributions. It is also not tainted with some Linuxisms
like systemd...
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