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Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by rjsw » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 4:45 PM UTC

somethingsimple wrote: post #10

Does anyone here on HN have experience running NetBSD as their desktop OS?

I'm typing this on a desktop running NetBSD.

Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by emgee_1 » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 4:49 PM UTC

rjsw wrote: post #11

somethingsimple wrote: post #10

Does anyone here on HN have experience running NetBSD as their desktop OS?

I'm typing this on a desktop running NetBSD.

Can you elaborate a bit? What kind of DE?

Openbsd user here:-)

Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by rjsw » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 5:11 PM UTC

emgee_1 wrote: post #12

rjsw wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm typing this on a desktop running NetBSD.

Can you elaborate a bit? What kind of DE? Openbsd user here:-)

What do you count as a DE ?

Right now I'm running mwm, emacs, Firefox, NetBeans, a couple of PDF viewers and lots of xterms.

Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by bch » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 5:15 PM UTC

somethingsimple wrote: post #10

Does anyone here on HN have experience running NetBSD as their desktop OS?

It has been my primary for ~16 years, and I’ve been running -current (tip of development branch) for nearly 10 years. Base system (which includes tmux[0]), X11 (which is optional, but maintained by NetBSD), dwm[1], Tcl[2] cURL[3], fossil[4] and Firefox and I’m usually on my way...

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(software)

Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by ephor » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 5:20 PM UTC

somethingsimple wrote: post #10

Does anyone here on HN have experience running NetBSD as their desktop OS?

Not here, but I use NetBSD constantly as a timesharing system via SDF.org.

Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by Scarbutt » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 5:20 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #8

PeCaN wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the machines NetBSD runs on don't have USB 3 ports.

and usb3 is such a large piece of interface I'm not sad netbsd is taking its sweet time to make it solid.

just in time it's beginning to be replaced.

Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by na85 » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 5:20 PM UTC

rjsw wrote: post #11

somethingsimple wrote: post #10

Does anyone here on HN have experience running NetBSD as their desktop OS?

I'm typing this on a desktop running NetBSD.

Which laptop? How's battery life? Does s3/s0 suspend and resume work?

Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by emgee_1 » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 5:20 PM UTC

rjsw wrote: post #13

emgee_1 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate a bit? What kind of DE? Openbsd user here:-)

What do you count as a DE ? Right now I'm running mwm, emacs, Firefox, NetBeans, a couple of PDF viewers and lots of xterms.

Well if you are using emacs, like I do, what else do you need? Ok maybe a browser outside of emacs and a pdf viewer:-) And a tmux session somewhere.

Someone once said:

I just need a bootloader for emacs :-)

Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by nbsd4life » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 5:26 PM UTC

somethingsimple wrote: post #10

Does anyone here on HN have experience running NetBSD as their desktop OS?

I do, I'm using dwm, firefox and urxvt.

I've got a lot of netbsd running machines. The one I use now is a Haswell CPU with nvidia graphics, and everything works well on it (even nvidia graphics!).

Not all machines are so good. I have a too new Dell XPS. It doesn't have graphical acceleration. But it was very cool to have the touchscreen working already (although with rough edges).

Re: NetBSD 8.0 released

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Post by floatboth » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 5:39 PM UTC

hnarn wrote: post #6

PeCaN wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the machines NetBSD runs on don't have USB 3 ports.

Also, isn't 3.0 fully backward compatible with 2.0? I imagine this would affect how critical people would classify support to be developed, if everything already works, just slower.

It's backwards compatible on the device side (you can plug a 3.0 device into a 2.0 port and work at lower speed). But I really doubt that you can use an xHCI controller through EHCI drivers.