On Sun, 29 Aug 2021, Bryce Vandegrift wrote:

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 22:00:39 -0400
From: Bryce Vandegrift <bpv@disroot.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: What's Your Favorite Unix Version?

Just wondering what everyone's favorite Unix version/distro is.
(Also includes Unix-like and other variants).

Currently, my favorite is Void Linux because it strikes a balance
between minimalism and usability. For what I've seen, it operates very similarly to BSD. Speaking of BSD, I'm thinking about switching to
OpenBSD as I am hearing a lot of good things about it.

--bpv

Definitely late to the party (2 years later...) but when it comes to Unix history, my favorite is 4.4BSD, the last one from the CSRG. I have all 5 O'Reilly/USENIX books published on the OS, including the System Manager's Manual.

In recent/modern Unix? I like NetBSD, as SDF introduced me to it. It feels
very traditional to me.

mam@SDF.org -- Molly A. McCollum

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Molly A. McCollum <mam@sdf.org> wrote:

Definitely late to the party (2 years later...) but when it comes to Unix history, my favorite is 4.4BSD, the last one from the CSRG. I have all 5 O'Reilly/USENIX books published on the OS, including the System Manager's Manual.

In recent/modern Unix? I like NetBSD, as SDF introduced me to it. It feels very traditional to me.

Really?
Can you tell me how to increase maximum VM beyond 64MB in 4.4BSD pmax?

This is truly not a joke. I've got 4.4BSD on a DECstation 5000/200
and it won't use more than 64MB of VM and will run out of memory
even though there is enough swap space available.

regards,
Dennis

--
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

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Unfortunately, a large portion of the SMM is on paperback only.
Thankfully, some of the chapters exist online in PDF and PostScript:

01. Installing & Operating: https://github.com/sergev/4.4BSD-Lite2/blob/master/usr/share/doc/smm/01.setup.pdf?raw=true

02. Building Kernels https://github.com/sergev/4.4BSD-Lite2/blob/master/usr/share/doc/smm/02.config.pdf?raw=true

On 02, page 22-23, I was able to find a fair amount of mentions about
virtual memory -- you might be able to look there for some advice. Let me
know if you succeed in figuring this out. Also, the Github files I linked
are under the same repository, which has more chapters from multiple of
the books. Check it out.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023, Dennis Grevenstein wrote:

Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:12:08 -0000 (UTC)
From: Dennis Grevenstein <dennis.grevenstein@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Unix Version?

Molly A. McCollum <mam@sdf.org> wrote:

Definitely late to the party (2 years later...) but when it comes to Unix
history, my favorite is 4.4BSD, the last one from the CSRG. I have all 5
O'Reilly/USENIX books published on the OS, including the System Manager's
Manual.

In recent/modern Unix? I like NetBSD, as SDF introduced me to it. It feels >> very traditional to me.

Really?
Can you tell me how to increase maximum VM beyond 64MB in 4.4BSD pmax?

This is truly not a joke. I've got 4.4BSD on a DECstation 5000/200
and it won't use more than 64MB of VM and will run out of memory
even though there is enough swap space available.

regards,
Dennis

--
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

mam@SDF.org -- Molly A. McCollum

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Molly A. McCollum <mam@sdf.org> wrote:

On 02, page 22-23, I was able to find a fair amount of mentions about
virtual memory -- you might be able to look there for some advice. Let me know if you succeed in figuring this out. Also, the Github files I linked
are under the same repository, which has more chapters from multiple of
the books. Check it out.

I will have a look. Thanks!

Dennis

--
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

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FreeBSD is still the best, it works great, has nice hardware support and is pretty powerful in general.

BUT.

If you wanted me to ask what's your favorite Vintage Unix ? I would respond IRIX. It has that mid 90s UI that i love.
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Just wondering what everyone's favorite Unix version/distro is.
(Also includes Unix-like and other variants).

Currently, my favorite is Void Linux because it strikes a balance
between minimalism and usability. For what I've seen, it operates very similarly to BSD. Speaking of BSD, I'm thinking about switching to
OpenBSD as I am hearing a lot of good things about it.

--bpv

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