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Obscure retro OS runs on obscure retro hardware you say?
by ForHackernews 11mo ago
Obscure retro OS runs on obscure retro hardware you say?
- yjftsjthsd-h 11mo agoNetBSD isn't a retro OS, nor is it particularly obscure. (For that matter, VAX isn't obscure, though it's very retro.)
- ForHackernews 11mo agoMaybe not for hacker news. In the real world, it's plenty obscure. Poll your family at Thanksgiving. https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-netbsd https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-netbsd > NetBSD is used by less than 0.1% of all the websites whose operating system we know.
- yjftsjthsd-h 11mo agoI would expect the same number of laypeople to know about NetBSD and Debian (zero). Which gets neatly to an argument that I like for this kind of thing: Don't be so quick to throw out the long tail, because you're on it.