/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.

Best Unix for a shitty laptop

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