And why do you use it there?
On SDF for ages, and a few raspberry pi since model 1
Mainly at home. I have several old Apple G4s i run NetBSD/macppc on. A few years back I wrote short guide on installing NetBSD on these machines. http://www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/netbsd
It’s my OS of choice, and the with the passing of time I eventually installed it on most of my hardware:
- Thinkpad T460 (amd64), my current daily driver. HW probe
- Thinkpad R51 (i386), for retrogaming: dual-booted with FreeDOS
- Mac Mini G4 (macppc), for fun stuff and as DLNA.
- Workstation (custom build, triple-booted with Windows and Slachware; HW probe) . Mainly used for development and building packages
- Raspberry Pi4 (evbarm64), my main server (web, ftp, nntp, mail, matrix, git)
- Raspberry Pi3 (evbarm64), secondary server (firewall + DNS)
- SDF and tildeverse (tilde.pink)
I always wanted a SPARC machine but never got one.
On personal devices because I like the OS, pkgsrc, portable software, and the community.
On SDF, mostly. Locally, in a VM since a lot of my machine’s bells and whistles are only enabled in Linux (and the commercial OSes).
Right now, 10.0 BETA on my spare T420 Laptop. I have 7.02 on an old AMD333 system and trying to get 9.3 on it. It is hard going because there what I believe a motherboard issue with the CDROM Drive. And SDF :)
I hope to use it on my main system, a W541 Thinkpad. It works, but the Nvidia GPU (it as duel GPU) heats up a lot. I am not sure how to even diagnose this, but as the BETA persists I will keep checking to see if the issue stops. The W541 does not allow one to disable Nvidia :(
Well, the AMD333 (PII) now has NetBSD 9.3. It is working very well and works rather will and zippy considering its age.
I discovered the CDROM Drive was causing issues. I replaced it with one from a junk IBM PC a relative was tossing out. All good :)
AFAIK there’s no support for Optimus graphics on *BSD unless either of the 2 can be kicked out through the BIOS. I’d give an attempt to disabling nouveau/nouveaufb on boot.
Disabling nouveau did not fix the issue, but was a good idea, thanks.
Maybe time for another thread but I am still researching a bit, but the W541 has this for Video:
- Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
- Device-2: NVIDIA GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M],
I think per: https://man.netbsd.org/nouveau.4 that should be supported. If I cannot find any more info I may create a PR for 10-BETA.
I personally use it as a server OS for hosting websites and discord bots, etc. Soon I will be using it as my daily driver too!
