/prog/ - Best Unix for a shitty laptop

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 18:48

Not that bad in terms of specs - but most distros (FreeBSD, ReactOS, Gentoo) don't agree with my hardware.
What a Unix OS that's small enough to learn about operating systems while still being likely to work with my shitty laptop?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 18:49

Debian.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 18:52

>>2
Debian works alright, but I'd prefer a distro that's as minimal as possible. I'm only using this to learn - I don't care much about application support.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 18:55

>>3
Debian minimal, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Debian/kFreeBSwhatever its name is.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 19:06

Arch, Debian, Linux from Scratch, Slackware

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 19:13

minimal as possible?
tinycore

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 19:17

Xv6 (http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html)
Minix (http://www.minix3.org/)
Plan 9 (http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/)

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 19:39

>>7
Stop trolling that guy with your useless half-baked academic OSes.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 19:56

>>8
If you had read >>1-san's post, you would know that he wants
to learn about operating systems

Academic OSes are designed specifically for learning about operating systems.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 20:23

>>9
This guy is correct. I've already attempted a plan-9 install - it suddenly corrupted my MBR and I'm looking for a way to restore it.
Anyone know of a boot restorer iso for lilo?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 20:25

>>10
Did you try using a Linux Live CD?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 20:36

UNIX is a shit.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 21:32

>>12
but is a good enough shit

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-07 21:49

if you want UNIX without paying any money, you should get FreeBSD. contrary to popular belief, FreeBSD is more secure than OpenBSD and its ports tree is better maintained.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 2:49

Inferno

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 2:50

debian

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 3:05

lain

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 4:45

Are there still commercial UNIX derivatives floating around? If there are, I haven't heard of them.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 4:47

>>18
Mac OS X.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 5:02

>>19
Shit nigger, I should've seen THAT one coming.

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Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 6:20

DSM, puppy Linux, mfsBSD, debian, Mimix, etc..

But what is wrong with Minimal FreeBSD?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 6:28

Windows.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 7:32

Damn Small Linux

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 7:35

>>6
Tinycore is for jizzmopping QUEERS. Microcore is where it's at, you oblivious fuck.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 8:14

>>21
DSM
Damn Small Minix?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 10:30

>>23
Some years ago i installed Damn Small Linux in a Pentium notebook with 128MB of ram, and it was amazingly fast. With a GUI. Sadly it had outdated software, but was good enough to revive such old hardware.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 10:37

Currently running NetBSD.
Having trouble, though - my wireless drivers aren't building because the makefile invokes make -C, which NetBSD's default make doesn't seem to be happy with. I've tried replacing it with both options in NetBSD's make that take a directory as -C does to no avail, and now I'm trying to figure out how to unzip this .tgz to build CMake. Gunzip won't take .tgz files.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 12:14

a r c h

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 12:19

>>27
Just use bsdtar.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-08 13:41

>>27
why not just use gmake instead of make?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-09 2:11

>>3
minimal

I am ever so tired of hearing this word. Debian is ``minimal'' - you can install only the base system, which has fuck-all in it, and build the system up from there.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-09 2:26

Damn Small Anus

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-09 6:46

Debian is best

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-09 7:00

>>25
typo, DSL, But I just remembered NetBSD. I guess OP is trying it.

>>31
Agreed, as well as any *BSD. Fedora got bloated though

>>28
too untested.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-09 14:23

>>1

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>ReactOS

>Unix

>>2-34
YHBT

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-10 0:43

>>34
You can certainly build a Fedora install up from base as well; it's just more painful. The Fedora guys are very eager to push changes that will break all your scripts to make way for whatever shiny new object has their attention this month (see also: ``systemd'').

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