Choose your post-Linux self-exile
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@flyingsaceur FreeBSD on an SGI Indigo in an abandoned factory* in a mountain cave
*for the cool automation hardware
@flyingsaceur This was a tough call. (I actually liked AIX!)
And don’t think I didn’t notice HP-UX was omitted. It’s the right call, of course; people who would choose it aren’t surviving the apocalypse anyway.
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Choose your post-Linux self-exile
@flyingsaceur
Really: Macos.
Ideally: Haiku.
If I was insane: Plan9. -
@flyingsaceur This was a tough call. (I actually liked AIX!)
And don’t think I didn’t notice HP-UX was omitted. It’s the right call, of course; people who would choose it aren’t surviving the apocalypse anyway.
@curtosis Each one of these possible exiles is a story. For HP-UX I think the story would involve a hidden room in a university library where the lights can’t be turned off, and proceeds to a sleeping bag under a conference table
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@flyingsaceur
Really: Macos.
Ideally: Haiku.
If I was insane: Plan9.@mdhughes@appdot.net @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @flyingsaceur why can’t we pick more than one?
- realistically: FreeBSD on RISC-V netbook in a Shenzhen studio apartment
- also possible: A/UX on a Quadra 700 in a bog hut
- realistic second preference: Lua on an ESP32 terminal emulator on Inception Beach, although I would probably try to get Gauche Scheme on it, instead if Lua. (Lua is nice, though.)
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@mdhughes@appdot.net @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @flyingsaceur why can’t we pick more than one?
- realistically: FreeBSD on RISC-V netbook in a Shenzhen studio apartment
- also possible: A/UX on a Quadra 700 in a bog hut
- realistic second preference: Lua on an ESP32 terminal emulator on Inception Beach, although I would probably try to get Gauche Scheme on it, instead if Lua. (Lua is nice, though.)
@ramin_hal9001 @mdhughes the thing with Inception Beach is you have all the time in the world. Implement your own scheme!
Each exile is a story. You get one ending, choose a happy one
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@flyingsaceur
Really: Macos.
Ideally: Haiku.
If I was insane: Plan9.@mdhughes Can I interest you in a BeBox in a Batcave?
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@mdhughes Can I interest you in a BeBox in a Batcave?
@flyingsaceur Also IRIX on an SGI Indigo in a concrete bunker in winter is my… not exactly happy place, but happier times.
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@flyingsaceur Also IRIX on an SGI Indigo in a concrete bunker in winter is my… not exactly happy place, but happier times.
@mdhughes I have an old memory of an Indy that just appeared one day like a goddamn monolith in a small computer lab full of Gateway 2000 486DX4/100 desktops and I swear I could hear the chorus wailing when it got quiet in there
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@mdhughes I have an old memory of an Indy that just appeared one day like a goddamn monolith in a small computer lab full of Gateway 2000 486DX4/100 desktops and I swear I could hear the chorus wailing when it got quiet in there
@flyingsaceur As I said at the time (& got quoted in an SGI memo, which kinda oops), "an Indy is an Indigo without the go."
IRIX is unhappy with insufficient RAM & GPU power. But it would've blown those PC things away.
I was using the Indigo to do dumb 3D graphics rendering for like ad & station bumpers. Whee, but got me playing with GL.
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@flyingsaceur As I said at the time (& got quoted in an SGI memo, which kinda oops), "an Indy is an Indigo without the go."
IRIX is unhappy with insufficient RAM & GPU power. But it would've blown those PC things away.
I was using the Indigo to do dumb 3D graphics rendering for like ad & station bumpers. Whee, but got me playing with GL.
@mdhughes my first machines were a VIC-20 and a IIgs, I know a thing or two about disappointment
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@flyingsaceur I've had great fun imagining a machine which natively interprets Pushdown Non-deterministic Finite Automata. That is: EBNF. Give me one of those for my exile!
Though I've got no drive to exile myself from civilization, I don't see the point in striking out on my own...
That said, I do like Lua...
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Choose your post-Linux self-exile
@flyingsaceur Here it's probably going to be a bastardized NetBSD and probably more 9front and Haiku.
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@flyingsaceur As I said at the time (& got quoted in an SGI memo, which kinda oops), "an Indy is an Indigo without the go."
IRIX is unhappy with insufficient RAM & GPU power. But it would've blown those PC things away.
I was using the Indigo to do dumb 3D graphics rendering for like ad & station bumpers. Whee, but got me playing with GL.
@mdhughes @flyingsaceur Now you’re making me want to set up my Indigo2 SOLID again.
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@mdhughes my first machines were a VIC-20 and a IIgs, I know a thing or two about disappointment
@flyingsaceur @mdhughes I loved my IIgs.
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FreeRTOS on an ESP32 at Vermilion Sands.
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@flyingsaceur custom Uxn emulator on an RP2040
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@flyingsaceur voted project oberon but SOAR running an st80/modern squeak in Keash also sounds nice
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Choose your post-Linux self-exile
@flyingsaceur some kind of FORTH on a Z180, trying to explain to passing business people that this will 100% browse and edit structured data and run reports more securely and reliably than what they're using
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@flyingsaceur voted project oberon but SOAR running an st80/modern squeak in Keash also sounds nice
@flyingsaceur also theres oberon for the PIs but i am yet to debug usb subsystem borkage after the weird two of the weird shutdown it does
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@flyingsaceur Really tough. I want the log cabin, and I can take or leave OpenBSD, but I think I'd want to get away from the PC platform. However, I think you've hit on something with the pairing: a PC is ordinary, everyman, necessarily unpretentious. Not that you can't have a bougie cabin (chalet, anyone?), but that doesn't sound like what's on offer.
