I installed it on my Slackware 15.0 system and it went great, But one warning, you may need to add this exact line to the very first like of some .el files. Then maybe "compile" the .el files to .elc
;; -- lexical-binding: nil --
I had to add it to ~/.emacs, ~/.emacs.d/elpa/elpher-3.7.0/elpher.el and file ps-ccrypt.el to avoid an error message that kept popping up.
I updated my NetBSD amd64 and i386 systems to pkgsrc 2026Q2, only had 6 minor errors. Those errors had to to with python py313-gobject3-3.56.3nb2 I just ignored it since all is working fine after the update.
Also NetBSD 11.0 RC7 came out today, so I upgraded to that too. A big update day today :)
Nice Article, but to me, NetBSD is not '90s' like. It and the other BSDs went down a different path than Linux, or actually stayed on the same path. Instead of going down a Windows Path, they stayed on a UNIX path.
Nice article, and yes, I agree with cgd(8) and the installer :)
I was able to setup cgd(8) but that was not easy. I had tp print out that chapter and scribble some notes for install on a 2nd device. But as another article said, you get a great sense of accomplishment once you get NetBSD up and running !
For OpenBSD, as long as the computers have the same CPUs and you are using the standard kernel, I doubt any changes are needed. I have done this many times without issues.
The biggest impact would be to max out the memory. That will not help with browsers like Firefox, but will help with other items.
Plus there is a whole world out there that many people ignore or do not know about, USENET and IRC. Accessing those will work with just about any Thinkpad, no matter how old. Plus there is toot for Mastodon (I need to get that working), but not sure if there is a text utility to access lemmy
I have a Thinkpad which is a bit newer then yours (R51e) with OpenBSD on it. I get by quite well with dillo, links (need to try links2), mutt, tin (USENET) and irssi (IRC). All I did is maxed out memory to 2G. But, I never do banking on the Internet. All I do is need to do is get my pdf bank statement once a month which I use a newer Thinkpad for.
The number of participants stayed the same. There were 2722 more tournament games than last year, the proportion of all games played went up 6.6%. 9 fewer people ascended 13 fewer games, with a higher ratio of 2.9 asc/player. There was only 1 ascension in Fourk, Dyna and 1.3d. 81% of games were scummed, 58% of all scums that month, basically split 2:1 between 31PwnMoat (again) and hecatonheir (last year it was dedal). Medusa was killed 87 more times, again mostly by Valkyries, but also dwarven Anachrononauts. 3.7 was played even more, dnh gained 7 ranks (+3.9%p), Un lost 4th place to HackEM (-4.9%p), Splice stayed in 3rd place, Spork/Fourk were played least, but 1.3d shot up 4 ranks from last place. On the australian hardfought server 8x more games were played.
Clan DeepCavernGoobs managed to break all conducts in 19 games. malor ascended 11 variants; Merlek killed Medusa 9 times, only ascended 4, but got a trophy in all 21 variants. Only Umbire ascended 1.3d (uncrowned). jonosmalls and smurphy ascended Unnethack (jono even without Elbereth [also in xnh], killing all Riders and Baalzebub). Splice: finitelycraig got the Bell, stoicjin the Luckstone. Spork: Muad got the Bell, bleeko entered Gehennom. Grunt: Merlek killed Medusa and got the Luckstone, hothraxxa finished Sokoban. hothraxxa ascended NH4 without killing Vlad and the Quest nemesis. Fourk: recuerdo ascended, fitsf killed Croesus. FIQ: oh6 escaped in celestial disgrace, Merlek splatted on the Planes, Umbire killed Rodney. hothraxxa ascended DynaHack, bleeko reached Gehennom. fitsf and malor ascended SLASH’EM, ocnda escaped in disgrace. disperse and malor ascended SlashTHEM. Dictyostelium entered the Quest in HackEM. anselmus and malor ascended AceHack, ais523 and recuerdo splatted on the Planes. Noisytoot killed Demogorgon in nndnh.
No, to write to a CD, you need to use specialized software, not just a simple copy.
Plus what about copying to replaced a files already on the CD ? I believe you need to clear it first then rewrite everything back. CD are about as inconvenient as a media can get.
Nothing except for the limited size. I believe even today, nothing exists today for temp storage that have the convenience of diskettes.
USB Flash Drives comes close, but cheaper versions can in rare cases have firmware "virises". On a diskette, just do a format and all issues gone. Also I never even thought twice about mailing a file on a diskette expecting to never see that diskette again. Flash Drives, I still would like to get it back after mailing it out :)
Nice, I have NetBSD v10.0 on my Thinkpad T420, and issues I had with an external monitor has been fixed plus is is more zippy.
The only remaining issue I have with 10.0 is when the system is under very heavy load, Xorg can get temporarily corrupted after about 1 hour of the job running. I create PR 58217 for that issue.
In reality, I think very few people will ever run into this problem, but hoping for a 10.x fix some day :)
Nice, "No BigTech" is the main reason I may very well be 100% BSD rather soon. Right now I use BSD 50% of the time to ensure objects I develop on Linux works everywhere. By testing on both OpenBSD and NetBSD, I have found many memory issues Linux has been quite happy ignoring :) These are items have written for use on AIX, soon to be RHEL :(
Because if the funding has not been cut, there is a good chance we would have been ready. This is not the first time Bird Flu made an appearance, it is just with the low funding level more important issues came up, like covid. Not to mention, a lot of good researchers went into private companies due to threats to them from the orange clown.
I remember working in a warehouse that stored many ICs when I was very young. IIRC, Zilog packaging was quite good. Some other brands packages would crack or open up if nor handled with "kid gloves". This brings back memories,
The list are all the big banks, good luck with the next bond sale, I would not be surprise of OK will need to pay a bit more interest due to cutting out all these banks.
First the current Post Master General needs to go. He cancelled an order of electric vehicles and reordered them as fossil fuel. Biden forced him to undo that IIRC. These are vehicles that are used in Cities to pickup mail and for mail carriers to use. At most they do 100 miles per day, and that is an over estimate.
But the USPS would not have to do that plan if the GOP did not cut there funding to the point were the stopped making a profit using creative accounting 20+ years ago. So Tulsa and Fayetteville, you get what you pay for :)
I installed it on my Slackware 15.0 system and it went great, But one warning, you may need to add this exact line to the very first like of some .el files. Then maybe "compile" the .el files to .elc
;; -- lexical-binding: nil --
I had to add it to ~/.emacs, ~/.emacs.d/elpa/elpher-3.7.0/elpher.el and file ps-ccrypt.el to avoid an error message that kept popping up.
I updated my NetBSD amd64 and i386 systems to pkgsrc 2026Q2, only had 6 minor errors. Those errors had to to with python py313-gobject3-3.56.3nb2 I just ignored it since all is working fine after the update.
Also NetBSD 11.0 RC7 came out today, so I upgraded to that too. A big update day today :)
Nice Article, but to me, NetBSD is not '90s' like. It and the other BSDs went down a different path than Linux, or actually stayed on the same path. Instead of going down a Windows Path, they stayed on a UNIX path.
DR DOS 6 was my favorite, one under appreciated utility was assigning a password to a file. Only people knowing the PW could get at the file.
Granted it was easy to work around, but I have to wonder how that would have been enhanced as time went on.
I really miss the DOS days :)
Maybe post the question here:
https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/retrocomputing
Someone there may want it for parts.
Nice article, and yes, I agree with cgd(8) and the installer :)
I was able to setup cgd(8) but that was not easy. I had tp print out that chapter and scribble some notes for install on a 2nd device. But as another article said, you get a great sense of accomplishment once you get NetBSD up and running !
You will find both are very similar to each other, especially for common tasks. See: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/
I have OpenBSD on a R51e and had it on a T61. No issues except sleep and resume. R51e fails, T61 works except on resume you loose your USB ports.
Now NetBSD works great on the T61, no issues. The R51e I kept with OpenBSD.
Also note this quote from OpenBSD: "... only easy and critical security fixes are backported to i386"
https://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
Nice, but how did I miss this undeadly article!
For OpenBSD, as long as the computers have the same CPUs and you are using the standard kernel, I doubt any changes are needed. I have done this many times without issues.
But, at the very least you should do a fw_update
The biggest impact would be to max out the memory. That will not help with browsers like Firefox, but will help with other items.
Plus there is a whole world out there that many people ignore or do not know about, USENET and IRC. Accessing those will work with just about any Thinkpad, no matter how old. Plus there is toot for Mastodon (I need to get that working), but not sure if there is a text utility to access lemmy
I have a Thinkpad which is a bit newer then yours (R51e) with OpenBSD on it. I get by quite well with dillo, links (need to try links2), mutt, tin (USENET) and irssi (IRC). All I did is maxed out memory to 2G. But, I never do banking on the Internet. All I do is need to do is get my pdf bank statement once a month which I use a newer Thinkpad for.
I had a hard time getting into it too, but I got to it. So I will paste it in.
From: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24552643 via https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/joes
The number of participants stayed the same. There were 2722 more tournament games than last year, the proportion of all games played went up 6.6%. 9 fewer people ascended 13 fewer games, with a higher ratio of 2.9 asc/player. There was only 1 ascension in Fourk, Dyna and 1.3d. 81% of games were scummed, 58% of all scums that month, basically split 2:1 between 31PwnMoat (again) and hecatonheir (last year it was dedal). Medusa was killed 87 more times, again mostly by Valkyries, but also dwarven Anachrononauts. 3.7 was played even more, dnh gained 7 ranks (+3.9%p), Un lost 4th place to HackEM (-4.9%p), Splice stayed in 3rd place, Spork/Fourk were played least, but 1.3d shot up 4 ranks from last place. On the australian hardfought server 8x more games were played.
And a comment from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/joes
Clan DeepCavernGoobs managed to break all conducts in 19 games. malor ascended 11 variants; Merlek killed Medusa 9 times, only ascended 4, but got a trophy in all 21 variants. Only Umbire ascended 1.3d (uncrowned). jonosmalls and smurphy ascended Unnethack (jono even without Elbereth [also in xnh], killing all Riders and Baalzebub). Splice: finitelycraig got the Bell, stoicjin the Luckstone. Spork: Muad got the Bell, bleeko entered Gehennom. Grunt: Merlek killed Medusa and got the Luckstone, hothraxxa finished Sokoban. hothraxxa ascended NH4 without killing Vlad and the Quest nemesis. Fourk: recuerdo ascended, fitsf killed Croesus. FIQ: oh6 escaped in celestial disgrace, Merlek splatted on the Planes, Umbire killed Rodney. hothraxxa ascended DynaHack, bleeko reached Gehennom. fitsf and malor ascended SLASH’EM, ocnda escaped in disgrace. disperse and malor ascended SlashTHEM. Dictyostelium entered the Quest in HackEM. anselmus and malor ascended AceHack, ais523 and recuerdo splatted on the Planes. Noisytoot killed Demogorgon in nndnh.
No, to write to a CD, you need to use specialized software, not just a simple copy.
Plus what about copying to replaced a files already on the CD ? I believe you need to clear it first then rewrite everything back. CD are about as inconvenient as a media can get.
Nothing except for the limited size. I believe even today, nothing exists today for temp storage that have the convenience of diskettes.
USB Flash Drives comes close, but cheaper versions can in rare cases have firmware "virises". On a diskette, just do a format and all issues gone. Also I never even thought twice about mailing a file on a diskette expecting to never see that diskette again. Flash Drives, I still would like to get it back after mailing it out :)
Nice, I have NetBSD v10.0 on my Thinkpad T420, and issues I had with an external monitor has been fixed plus is is more zippy.
The only remaining issue I have with 10.0 is when the system is under very heavy load, Xorg can get temporarily corrupted after about 1 hour of the job running. I create PR 58217 for that issue.
In reality, I think very few people will ever run into this problem, but hoping for a 10.x fix some day :)
Nice, "No BigTech" is the main reason I may very well be 100% BSD rather soon. Right now I use BSD 50% of the time to ensure objects I develop on Linux works everywhere. By testing on both OpenBSD and NetBSD, I have found many memory issues Linux has been quite happy ignoring :) These are items have written for use on AIX, soon to be RHEL :(
Because if the funding has not been cut, there is a good chance we would have been ready. This is not the first time Bird Flu made an appearance, it is just with the low funding level more important issues came up, like covid. Not to mention, a lot of good researchers went into private companies due to threats to them from the orange clown.
I guess that is what you get when you cut funding to the CDC.
I remember working in a warehouse that stored many ICs when I was very young. IIRC, Zilog packaging was quite good. Some other brands packages would crack or open up if nor handled with "kid gloves". This brings back memories,
The list are all the big banks, good luck with the next bond sale, I would not be surprise of OK will need to pay a bit more interest due to cutting out all these banks.
First the current Post Master General needs to go. He cancelled an order of electric vehicles and reordered them as fossil fuel. Biden forced him to undo that IIRC. These are vehicles that are used in Cities to pickup mail and for mail carriers to use. At most they do 100 miles per day, and that is an over estimate.
But the USPS would not have to do that plan if the GOP did not cut there funding to the point were the stopped making a profit using creative accounting 20+ years ago. So Tulsa and Fayetteville, you get what you pay for :)