Preach.

I actually love the theory of the Mach nanokernel, I just also think Apple went their own way with it, defeating the purpose entirely.

You’re right, but rax is amd64.

I think there were a few early amd64 systems with genuine ps2, and I think you can still get one, but it wasn’t common, and honestly it’s probably usb->ps/2.

To be a pedantic asshole: mov eax, ecx? Unless you’re commenting on the insanity of interrupt driven i/O in the modern age of high performance, deep-pipelined superscalar OOO cores.

Qnx is certified and has (hard) rtos baked in.

But montavista and others give most of that by now for less and are more maintainable anyway.

Linux back then was just minix with more packages like x.

The kernel was absolute bedlam back then.

Msft funded them for a while to do this:

https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center-networking/microsoft-s-ties-to-sco-confirmed-by-investment-group

Amen, freebsd crew represent!

And to anybody throwing shade:

BSD is literally the #1 mobile os, and has been for years, even if the kernel has extra chromosomes.

It’s incredible if your hardware is compatible.

Yeah, wifi is still sketchy though.

Not Linux, but 9front or that thing they wrap the gnu Mach kernel in.

Yo.

Wouldn’t recommend it for novices, but I’ve just never had a better server distro, they perfected it.

I disagree completely, GTK looks like they took windows 3.11 and covered all the widgets in dried shit.

I have never understood how there was any competition.

KDE has always been a better DE than anything on any platform, while gnome has been one of the worst and it just keeps going downhill.

Debian is godly for servers, stable, robust, and most software is supported one way or another.

Also none of that redhat bs like their management stack, or Ubuntu and snap.

Their only weakness was they were far dated on kernels and software and that changed over the last 5 years, they’re often ahead of ubuntu now.

My first choice is always freebsd if I don’t need kvm or docker and the software is there, arch if it’s more workstationy, Gentoo if I’m in a fun mood (mained it for years but it kept breaking), and finally Debian if I just want something that works.

Even with Debian, wrote an lxc-based stack so it’s often just a base for arch for fun and Ubuntu for work. This is where it truly shines.

I agree.

But honestly, how much Debian specific anything is there outside the install?

In fact debian is branded as the most boring vanilla distro there is, for good reason.

Almost everything Linux you do is better documented in the arch docs imho.

Like I said, I use debian docs to install.

After that arch docs are INCREDIBLY thorough, they cover almost all of linux and are far more exhaustive than any other.

OpenSSL has a terrible codebase and development completely stalled for a while as it basically went to shit.

LibreSSL forked during the end of that period, but it didn’t quite get enough traction, and the demand for it went down, while openssl also a critical dependency for so many things.

Honestly OpenSSL just stole enough from LibreSSL to sort itself out a bit, and not enough people switched, plus all the new algorithms are written by academic or big corp crypto guys who throw it over the wall into OpenSSL as the default place everything gets used.

Also OpenSSL is certified which means any critical application has to use it.

Do you remember…

When someone first showed you tab completion?

Like absolute fucking wizardry man, like a Jedi Master appeared in front of you with the knowledge of the ancients.

Before that instant in your life you were typing out full pathnames, like some fucking schmuck.

And from then on, everything changed, forever.

I’m close, 93 also I think, slack on a 386.

Got stuck in vi, had to reboot.

Remember thinking how awesome 6 virtual consoles were. I think my tmux addiction came from there.

… I don’t remember building grep, nor do I remember a time before bash.

Are… Are you God?