Subj : Test
To   : apam
From : Oli
Date : Tue Feb 04 2020 10:06:33

04 Feb 20 15:52, you wrote to me:

 ap>> Just a test to see if I've configured my pi correctly..

 Ol>> Haiku, NetBSD on the Pi ... when can we expect the RISC OS port? ;)

 ap> I had pondered RISC OS, but as far as I know it's not posix unlike
 ap> Haiku. Same with Amiga OS. So might take a bit more time to figure out,
 ap> but there are more important things to work on for now I think,

Even if it were nice and fun to have it on amiga or risc os, there is just a
limited
amount of time. A BBS that adapts to the terminal size dynamically is also very
 cool
and much more useful for the majority of users and sysop (just as an example).

RISC OS is not posix, but it has UnixLib which provides some posix
compatibility
https://www.riscos.info/index.php/C_in_RISC_OS

I'm not a C programmer and I don't knoe UnixLib, I guess there is still stuff
missing
and it is still not as easy as a port to Haiku.

 Ol>> How is your experience with netbsd on the Pi. Would you recommend
 Ol>> to test it? (for a
 Ol>> headless server).

 ap> Honestly, no. It works well, but you need to do a lot of compiling,
 ap> which takes time and I suspect wears out the SD card.

I think that depends a lot on the filesystem, TRIM support and partitioning to
the
right boundaries. I still hope my sd card survives a couple of years.

 ap> I'm only running it because I like NetBSD - and wanted an excuse to run
 ap> it, but if I was serious about using a Pi for a server, rather than just
 ap> a play thing, I'd probably use raspbian due to it's packages.

That sounds like I should get some netbsd experience by running it in a VM
first and
see how much I like it. I always want to give alternatives to linux a chance
(especially after Linus' recent uninformed rant about ZFS), but I'm so used to
Linux
that it's hard to switch ...

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