Gourd on Nostr: Running #NetBSD 11.0 (from this year) on my 1997 Pentium MMX 233 MHz system out of ...
Running #NetBSD 11.0 (from this year) on my 1997 Pentium MMX 233 MHz system out of curiosity, and it's facinating how the OS can boot relatively fast, text mode applications still usually launch snappily, but it takes five minutes for fontconfig to update the cache.
It also fails the "can this play Doom" test amusingly with Chocolate Doom: Chocolate Doom's setup program is too much for it to handle under Xorg between the S3 Virge GPU, 128 MB of RAM, and CPU.
Still really cool it works as well as it does on a system this old and supports all the hardware in it, though. And it can even touch the internet without me being worried of it being killed by long-lasting internet background malware radiation from the 90's!
#retrocomputing
Published at
2026-08-22 00:10:16 UTCEvent JSON
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