From: soulkarsten@gmail.com   
      
   TheSun, 05 Oct 2025 20:29:35 -0400, Slimes wrote:   
      
   > The best alternative operating systems are old ones that no one uses   
   > anymore.   
   >   
   > SunOS Solaris Win 311 BeOS / Haiku AmigaOS Mac OS (Classic)   
   > DOS IRIX VMS ...are but a few examples. Many 8 bit computers can access   
   > the internet now too using clever hardware devices.   
   >   
   > All of these systems have NNTP, Gopher, mail, browsers, SSH, telnet,   
   > ftp, finger, uucp, etc.   
   >   
   > They do everything one would need without all the chaff that comes with   
   > new operating systems.   
   >   
   > You have to be somewhat clever to make these systems work now, and   
   > potentially repair them as well. There are many devices now available to   
   > bridge the old hardware no new inexpensive hardware like IDE->SATA,   
   > IDE/SATA->SD, CF, BlueSCSI, vga to HDMI adapters, and so on.   
   >   
   > The old protocols are insanely fast. So little overhead.   
   >   
   > There are still a lot of old-protocol servers out there free from the   
   > nonsense of the modern web.   
   >   
   > Get an account on one of the many tilde unix shell servers for access to   
   >   all of this stuff. sdf.org has been up since 1987 and has many   
   > services. A lifetime account is very inexpensive.   
   >   
   > Some links of interest:   
   > http://sdf.org http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw http://aminet.net   
   > http://wiby.org http://portal.mozz.us http://system7today.com/weather   
   > http://frogfind.com http://macintoshgarden.org   
   Lovely list, Haiku has been on my radar and I've tested it. It's really,   
   really great but lacks HW acceleration for browsing, some drivers for   
   wi-fi and sadly any power management for laptops.   
      
      
      
      
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