Published on: 2025-06-07 06:19:45
[New to Gemini? Have a look at my Gemini FAQ.] This article was bi-posted to Gemini and the Web; Gemini version is here: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/kraileth/neunix/2025/installing_bsd_pt3.gmi The first part of this series was about FreeBSD’s installer and the second covered OpenBSD’s installation program. This is a longer article and it has the most images that I ever included in one. While writing the other two articles didn’t take me too long, this one has has occupied several
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This is my battle-worn, falling-apart laptop rocking an #i486SX CPU from the early ’90s. It’s so ancient that it doesn’t even have an FPU (Actually, that’s not true, they just cut-out FPU from i486DX to make CPU cheaper)! Anyway, I’ve always dreamed of running a modern UNIX-like OS on it. So, I spent some time resurrecting math emulation in the #NetBSD-10.x kernel, and guess what? I did it! But here’s the kicker—the very moment I finished compiling the kernel, ready to test my work, my laptop
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ARG_MAX $@ $() ) Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants 2006-02-14 .. 2021-02-13 (see recent changes) After I had repeatedly wondered how all those "ash" variants might be related, and had found hardly any information, I had a closer look at the variants I know. Source is available for all variants, except for BSD/OS. Thanks to TUHS for archiving the traditional BSDs and 386BSD, to Kirk McKusick for his CSRG archive, and to Peter Seebach for allowing me to learn all BSD/OS variants. This page
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FPU Emulation Revival for i486SX on NetBSD This retro-computing project restores support for x87 floating-point unit (FPU) emulation in the NetBSD kernel, targeting legacy 486SX-class processors without hardware FPUs. It brings back the original MATH_EMULATE option into NetBSD 10.x and beyond, as well as reverts and reworks the changes introduced in commit dfe83e0, which removed FPU emulation support from the kernel. Disclaimer This project is a work in progress and may contain bugs or incomp
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If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii. You can check the Wii’s live status page for system load info. For a long time, I’ve enjoyed the idea of running general-purpose operating systems on decidedly not-general-purpose hardware. There’s been a few good examples of this over the years, including a few which were officially sanctioned by the OEM. Back in the day, my PS3 ran Yellow Dog Linux, and I’ve been search
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Please note that InitWare is still alpha software. But all disclosed security concerns have now been addressed. Running InitWare as an auxiliary service manager under NetBSD can now, then, be regarded as safe; but beware relying on this in production until a first stable release is made. The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. It runs on NetBSD, GNU/Linux, and all the other modern BSD systems. Units are automatically
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Hard as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Java was brand new and exciting. Long before it became the vast clunky back-end leviathan it is today, it was going to be the ubiquitous graphical platform that would be used on everything from cell phones to supercomputers: write once, run anywhere. Initially I drank the kool-aid and was thrilled about this new “modern” language that was going to take over the world, and drooled at the notion of Java-based computers, containing Java chips tha
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