On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:27:52PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
If your idea of "modern" is "anything
post-4.4Lite" then my
frozen-at-1.4T should do fine. If it includes things like SATA
support, sparc64 support, etc - all the things that NetBSD has done
since February 2000 - then it won't.
Take into account I was talking about on topic :-) boxes and, at most,
a 386 with 16MB of RAM or so. Of course things like SATA, ACPI,
64bits, etc. are aout of the question. For all that, current OpenBSD,
FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux do more than enough.
My idea of 'modern' is a system which is being developed, making
better, more optimised, patches are developed for it when problems or
vulnerabilities occur, etc.
Just think about a few people working on NetBSD 1.x, to name one, not
adding new functionality, well, perhaps porting some interesting new
programs, developing new ones, but mainly, keeping a good operating
system, lean, fast, secure, and made today, not 5 or 10 years ago.
I'm not for eyecandy (I use Ion3 as my window manager to have many
xterms distributed across my screen on X, and I work on the console
many times whitouth problem). I'd simply love to be able to do the
same on one of my old i386 boxes, whitout having the feeling I'm
running a 'Gruyere' (kind of :-) operating system.
Regards,
?ngel
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