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  • Re: Unix Distro for an ol

    From hollowone@VERT/BEERS20 to Wilhelm on Tue Sep 29 01:20:00 2026
    I am setting up an old Thinkpad x200 (8gigs of RAM, SSD, new 9-cell battery) as my cyberdeck. What Unix distro would you recommend? I am leaning towards Debian + i3m or Void Linux.

    there are no distros in Unix, only in Linux, which is unix-like clone as the closest unix term you can connect to it.

    still ok to have it on that machine unless you want more unix experience then one of the BSDs (FreeBSD is the easiest start) to consider.

    if you want to stay with distros.. try omarchy.

    -h1

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  • From Wilhelm@VERT/BACKWOOD to hollowone on Thu Oct 1 19:31:05 2026
    Re: Re: Unix Distro for an ol
    By: hollowone to Wilhelm on Tue Sep 29 2026 01:20 am

    So, I ended up installing Debian NetInst + i3, what a setup. Never gets above 3gigs of RAM, super snappy. New 9-cell battery giving me 8 hours of use as well.

    Thanks for the tips

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  • From Timex@VERT/VINTAGE to Wilhelm on Tue Nov 10 20:04:00 2026
    Wilhelm wrote to hollowone <=-

    So, I ended up installing Debian NetInst + i3, what a setup. Never gets above 3gigs of RAM, super snappy. New 9-cell battery giving me 8 hours
    of use as well.

    I'm using Devuan Linux on my older desktop that I use for testing.
    Devuan forked from Debian back when Debian decided to break their own rules
    and adopt systemd faster than they've adopted anything else.

    I've also used FreeBSD and GhostBSD, and as others have pointed out most
    BSD systems can run Linux software with little to no problem.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Timex on Wed Nov 11 09:40:07 2026
    Timex wrote to Wilhelm <=-

    I'm using Devuan Linux on my older desktop that I use for testing.
    Devuan forked from Debian back when Debian decided to break their own rules and adopt systemd faster than they've adopted anything else.

    I thought Devuan was the all-free version of Debian that GNU pushed?



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