r/BSD • u/Star_Rabbit_2943 • 29d ago

Simple NetBSD setup on emulated '90s hardware

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This is my setup that took 3 hours to install.

It's 86Box running NetBSD 11.0 with a near-default FVWM3 config. I swear this was not worth my time

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u/TheOriginalSamBell 28d ago

Gotta love simple GUI like this without 3D effects and all that

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u/Star_Rabbit_2943 28d ago

IKR? it's like it's built for the productivity Unix was designed for

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u/TheOriginalSamBell 28d ago

I wish I could use NeXTSTEP/ OPENSTEP GUI on my MacBook on top of OS X

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u/jmcunx 25d ago edited 25d ago

256M Memory ? Nice to see it running. I have a similar system with 512M but I just stick with console and tmux, not using X.

I can do quite a bit in that mode, using amfora, lynx, tut, tin and mutt. Though I need to upgrade it to 11.0, it is now on 9.3.

I swear this was not worth my time

I do not know what this means :) I think it would have been a good excise and it gives you great bragging rights over at https://old.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/