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>want to put something that has at least some utility on an old laptop with low RAM
>NetBSD seems like a good choice since "it runs on a toaster"
>go through the install without any hoops assuming it's streamlined
>find out it was a gotcha prank, I actually needed to go out of my way to select something to install pkgsrc binaries during installation
>have a rump OS with little to no idea what to do next
>decide to start over
>hardware detector behaves differently than last time and doesn't want to properly mount my hard drive(last time I needed like 20 minutes to find some wd0/file system combination that passes through this part but even going through them iteratively doesn't change the outcome now)
I get it, it's a just some stupid little toy OS but fuck this shit.
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>>107054093
cuck license
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Oh nice, I was hoping you would keep posting multiple threads about NetBSD not being for general use. I think that's what we need on this board, multiple threads about nothing because you tried to use a minimal Unix system like a regular PC OS.
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>>107054156
Cuck license blown out again. Even proprietary licenses are better than BSD/MIT.
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>>107054323
It's not that minimal you can use it like anything else if you do it get running if you don't mind using old versions of software. The problem is, it's a steaming pile of shit.



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