joelp

joelp, 14 days ago to retrocomputing

Got my hands on an old Mac Mini G4 PPC and immediately installed NetBSD 10 #macppc. Good docs of course, including specific to the G4. Once you get the hang of partioning for Open Firmware 3, pretty straight forward. My first Apple product 😂

#netbsd #retrocomputing

netbsd, 1 month ago to random

!!! netbsd 10 released !!!
✨ 🔥

https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html

joelp, 2 months ago to random

Finally got time to do a clean install of NetBSD10_RC5 on my #RockPro64 with an eMMC module.
Previously I had RC1 running for several months.
I have a PCIe M.2 card and a 500gb SSD; hence a breeze to backup key config files from RC1 and then restore once RC5 was up and SSD mounted.
Everything looks great 👍

#netbsd #netbsd10

joelp, 2 months ago to random

I've been running NetBSD10_RC for months on my RockPro64 and only recently learned about using
/usr/sbin/schedctl -A 4,5
to force a process to use the faster CPUs. Hopefully this improves a daily ffmpeg job I have.
#NetBSD #RockPro64 #pine64

joelp, 4 months ago to retrocomputing

Here my notes on booting NetBSD 10_RC1 on a '90s laptop:

Upgrading from NetBSD 5.1 to 10_RC1
https://www.idatum.net/upgrading-from-netbsd-51-to-10_rc1.html

#netbsd #retrocomputing

joelp, 4 months ago to retrocomputing

That time of year to play with #retrocomputing hardware. Here's my '98 Satellite Pro running a 2010 build of #netbsd 5.1. And once again I'm tempted to try to get i386 NetBSD 10 on it. I don't have an FD or cdrom. Maybe take old HD out and image it?

@SDF home page in lynx running in xterm 😊

atomicpoet, 5 months ago to random

Finally! Google has been ruled a monopoly!

Granted, their monopoly was only acknowledged because another billion dollar corporation sued them. But now we can stop pussy-footing around their monopoly being "alleged". It is a monopoly through and through, and all monopolies hurt both innovation as well as the economy.

Let's not pretend that Google's monopoly has ever been "benevolent". Just because they give us free stuff doesn't mean Google is our friend. Sure, some of it is free -- but it often comes at a cost.

https://www.theverge.com/23994174/epic-google-trial-jury-verdict-monopoly-google-play

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Just spreading love for sysupgrade(8). I had a private server running 7.2 dutyfully serving a PHP software for a local organisation for the past 4 years....