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Yah... I ran NetBSD-1.1 and then followed current for awhile from source on little machines-- first a 486, then a Pentium and a SPARC 1+. It was clean and wond
by mlyle 5y ago
Yah... I ran NetBSD-1.1 and then followed current for awhile from source on little machines-- first a 486, then a Pentium and a SPARC 1+. It was clean and wonderful.
I just dug the Pentium of my late childhood out of the closet and figured I'd play DOS games and install recent NetBSD. But GENERIC is too big even with the reasonable maximum 64MB of RAM (most Pentiums cannot cache more than 64MB) to do anything but crawl, and compiling a kernel takes about 15 hours on a Pentium 120... and sure, I could build on another machine, but is it even Unix anymore if it's not self-hosting?
- anthk 5y agoCross-compile the kernel, sets and pkgs on a newer machine. NetBSD makes it really easy to do so. https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.html https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.html EDIT: Slim down the kernel as much as you can.
- mlyle 5y agoSure.... my whole comment is about slimming down the kernel and cross-compiling not feeling authentic. If you can't really self-host, what's the point?