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I am finding NetBSD works better on old computers than Linux. The differences are not too great. They are basically all based on the same POSIX standards.
by GianFabien 6y ago
I am finding NetBSD works better on old computers than Linux. The differences are not too great. They are basically all based on the same POSIX standards.
- the_only_law 6y agoNetBSD has all sorts of neat ports. It would device be my go to *nix for “near-vintage” machines.
- jmclnx 6y agoyes, both NetBSD and OpenBSD i386 works great on Old Computers and take very little space, I have OpenBSD on a Thinkpad R51e (circa 2007) and had NetBSD on a circa 1999 desktop (512 mb mem) which sadly is slowly fading away (hardware). Also both have solved the 2038 problem on 32 bit systems years ago. I think Linux is very close to solving it (or may have already), but that is for newer kernels. I expect Linux will probably drop 32 bit support with in a few years.