Mainly at home. I have several old Apple G4s i run NetBSD/macppc on. A few years back I wrote short guide on installing NetBSD on these machines. http://www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/netbsd
Right now, 10.0 BETA on my spare T420 Laptop. I have 7.02 on an old AMD333 system and trying to get 9.3 on it. It is hard going because there what I believe a motherboard issue with the CDROM Drive. And SDF :)
I hope to use it on my main system, a W541 Thinkpad. It works, but the Nvidia GPU (it as duel GPU) heats up a lot. I am not sure how to even diagnose this, but as the BETA persists I will keep checking to see if the issue stops. The W541 does not allow one to disable Nvidia :(
AFAIK there's no support for Optimus graphics on *BSD unless either of the 2 can be kicked out through the BIOS. I'd give an attempt to disabling nouveau/nouveaufb on boot.
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vins@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 3y
It's my OS of choice, and the with the passing of time I eventually installed it on most of my hardware:
I always wanted a SPARC machine but never got one.
thac0@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 3y
On SDF, mostly. Locally, in a VM since a lot of my machine's bells and whistles are only enabled in Linux (and the commercial OSes).
adamcrussell@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 3y
Mainly at home. I have several old Apple G4s i run NetBSD/macppc on. A few years back I wrote short guide on installing NetBSD on these machines. http://www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/netbsd
jbowen@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 3y
On personal devices because I like the OS, pkgsrc, portable software, and the community.
jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
Right now, 10.0 BETA on my spare T420 Laptop. I have 7.02 on an old AMD333 system and trying to get 9.3 on it. It is hard going because there what I believe a motherboard issue with the CDROM Drive. And SDF :)
I hope to use it on my main system, a W541 Thinkpad. It works, but the Nvidia GPU (it as duel GPU) heats up a lot. I am not sure how to even diagnose this, but as the BETA persists I will keep checking to see if the issue stops. The W541 does not allow one to disable Nvidia :(
vins@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 3y
AFAIK there's no support for Optimus graphics on *BSD unless either of the 2 can be kicked out through the BIOS. I'd give an attempt to disabling nouveau/nouveaufb on boot.
jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
Disabling nouveau did not fix the issue, but was a good idea, thanks.
Maybe time for another thread but I am still researching a bit, but the W541 has this for Video:
I think per: https://man.netbsd.org/nouveau.4 that should be supported. If I cannot find any more info I may create a PR for 10-BETA.
jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3y
Well, the AMD333 (PII) now has NetBSD 9.3. It is working very well and works rather will and zippy considering its age.
I discovered the CDROM Drive was causing issues. I replaced it with one from a junk IBM PC a relative was tossing out. All good :)
M33@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
On SDF for ages, and a few raspberry pi since model 1
kickmule@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
Here on SDF :-)
idk837384@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 3y
I personally use it as a server OS for hosting websites and discord bots, etc. Soon I will be using it as my daily driver too!