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I have found that Openbsd and Netbsd often work better than Linux on older PCs. Non-UNIX systems like KolibriOS, Haiku or Aros tend to fly on hardware where UN
by snvzz 3y ago
I have found that Openbsd and Netbsd often work better than Linux on older PCs.
Non-UNIX systems like KolibriOS, Haiku or Aros tend to fly on hardware where UNIX does not.
On an old enough system, FreeDOS, ELKS or Fuzix.
- wrx100 3y agoBuilding from source can take hours or even days on low-end machines though, unless you can get binaries for the apps you need for your old CPUs.
- kiwijamo 3y ago*BSD provide x86 binaries for most (if not all) packages so this is a non-issue IMHO.
- jmclnx 3y agoI do not know what this means. What would you build from source for OpenBSD and NetBSD ? Both support binary third party packages. But building on Linux will also take just as long, so really a non-issue :)
- wrx100 3y agoLast time I used NetBSD I was building my own packages (and the OS itself) from source (http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html). This was encouraged at the time. You could tweak them with various options and also contribute to the effort (https://www.pkgsrc.org/wip/ https://www.pkgsrc.org/wip/). I did install pkgsrc on Ubuntu to get around snap but building anything took such a long time even on modern hardware. But that was building all the dependencies from scratch. After that it should take less time.
- jmclnx 3y agoI came here to say the same. But note, if OpenBSD is installed on a "very" lightweight PC, you may need to disable re-linking of the kernel :) I thought I saw issues with this in the mailing lists if less than 1G memory. I think NetBSD is the champion with OpenBSD a rather close 2nd.