Haven’t had much time to mess with the ancient box and OpenBSD. I installed some packages, removed some of them, built vim 7.2a-beta from CVS (updated to patch level 8 yesterday), and wrote a few scripts. I also built a few more things from source.
One of the packages I installed and later deleted was zsh. I love zsh. It’s just not all that great on a computer with 64 MB RAM (52 of which are available). I’m back to using ksh, which is much lighter.
Speaking of light, I’m impressed that I’m only using about 650 MB of disk space so far. That’s with the X sets installed (required for some of the stuff I wanted to install that isn’t X-related) plus what I’ve added so far, not to mention files I’ve installed or moved to this computer. I haven’t bothered setting up X yet — not using it as a desktop anyway.
The above shot (partial view) is from a system stats script I wrote this morning.
Still thinking about installing OpenBSD on my laptop. I may shrink one Linux partition to reclaim enough space for it so I can at least try the bwi driver.
