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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Grandpa returning to UNIX Post 303025479 by fossiili on Saturday 3rd of November 2018 07:30:03 AM
Old 11-03-2018
Grandpa returning to UNIX
On the late 1960s I got short hands on experience with a russian "small" computer. It vas a copy of DEC's VAX ... and running some version of BSD-Unix. After that I worked in a university following the development of computing. After retire I started collecting old pc's and installing Linux-distributions to them. I like using terminal to do simple tasks as for ex. uppdating programs.

Now in the LINUX MAGAZINE March 2018 I found a dvd containing NetBSD 7.1.1. wich I installed or tried to do that. Everything seemed to go well except that while trying to get connected to Internet using 4G-wireles the installer did not find the DNS-server. Anycase I was able to login to the terminal. And I know that advice can be foundd, for ex.NetBSD Documentation.

But some questions are still open in my mind. There are still some strategic questions. What about some other variants of BSD as Free- Open- PC- Smilie

What would you recommend for a grandpa age 84 Smilie
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

netbsd32

COMPAT_NETBSD32(8)					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					COMPAT_NETBSD32(8)

NAME

     compat_netbsd32 -- setup procedure for 32-bit compatibility on 64-bit platforms

DESCRIPTION

     The compat_netbsd32 module allows NetBSD/sparc64 to run NetBSD/sparc executables, and NetBSD/amd64 to run NetBSD/i386 executables.

     To use compat_netbsd32, one must either have COMPAT_NETBSD32 and EXEC_ELF32 in the kernel, or load the compat_netbsd32 and exec_netbsd32 ker-
     nel modules.

     Static executables typically need no additional setup.  Dynamic binaries require the dynamic linker plus shared libraries.  Most of these
     files will need to be placed under /emul/netbsd32.

     The easiest method of installing support for these is via the emulators/netbsd32_compat14, emulators/netbsd32_compat15, and
     emulators/netbsd32_compat16 packages, provided in the NetBSD packages collection.	These install 32-bit a.out and ELF compatibility
     libraries, respectively.  The details of what is actually necessary for correct operation are given below.  This obviously is handled by the
     emulator packages.

     For a.out compatibility, /usr/libexec/ld.so from a 32-bit distribution is required to exist as /emul/netbsd32/usr/libexec/ld.so.  For 32-bit
     ELF compatibility, /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so needs to be in /emul/netbsd32/usr/libexec/ld.elf_so.

     The shared libraries for a.out binaries do not live under the /emul/netbsd32 directory, but under the /emul/aout directory, where the a.out
     dynamic linker will find them.

BUGS

     A list of things which fail to work in compatibility mode should be here.

     IPC is not well supported.

     sysctl(3) is not well supported.

BSD
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