From: z1ppy@news.eternal-september.org.invalid
On 2025-10-06, MasterKarsten wrote:
> 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.
Plan9/9front is also pretty comfy
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