Michael W Lucas 
Windows 11: You need TPM 2.0 to get security updates.
Me: fine, here you go
Win11: Please reboot to install updates!
Me: ok
Win11: I WILL NEVER BOOT AGAIN AND I WILL NOT ENTER SAFE MODE AND I WILL NOT LET YOU SEE THE ERROR LOG
Sketchy Wolf
Tim ChaseMeanwhile…
FreeBSD: You need a processor, preferably something made in the last two decades with 1GB of RAM (although more is better)
OpenBSD: You need a processor, preferably made sometime since the turn of the century and maybe 256MB of RAM (although more is better)
NetBSD: You've got a dead badger you found on the roadside and have attached it to a dodgy 220V power-source? Sure, we'll run on that.
silverwizard
HowToPhil (Phillip R)
David Cantrell 🏏@howtophil @gumnos @mwl CP/M: I can execute the machine code in my head, and more reliably than the surviving hardware it was supposed to run on.
Emelia/Emi@gumnos @mwl It's for linux, but relevant article.
And I have a copy of NetBSD running on an old 40MHz Sparc32 lunchbox with 64MB of RAM that I keep under my desk for when I need to talk to 3.5" floppies. (The most annoying part was how excruciatingly slow net-booting the installer is; the bootloader re-downloads the entire kernel image over excruciatingly slow TFTP 3-4 times for some reason, rather than buffering it in RAM. The actual netinstall takes a fraction of that time)
Dr David Mills@dtl ...Now I'm tempted to see if I can get it running on the indigo2 on my shelf... That's currently not running because I had to borrow the RAM to get the sparcstation to work (The stuff it had in it when I bought it was "basically junk" levels of failing memtest) but currently has IRIX sitting on the drive ready to boot as soon as I put the RAM back in.
@becomethewaifu it has been at least a decade since the indy booted. It was my mail server for a while. Probably still has a lot of old email on it.
Jeff
wyatt
ltning
Anders Gulden Olstad
The Penguin of Evil@gumnos @mwl sadly in a lot of cases it's now perhaps inevitably try and boot on dead badger discover it's not working, file a bug wait 9 months and get it closed by a vaguely related maintainer because the dead badger worked in 2003 and nobody has actually run tested it on real dead badgers since then or even knows how one works
it's all those modern dead badgers and the NDAs required to access the firmware. But if you happen to have a vintage dead-badger, you're good to go… 😛
April 
@gumnos @etchedpixels No NetBSD for Talos II yet, and it's been about 6 years. No excuse there...
Michael Engel@etchedpixels @gumnos @mwl Yeah, we found out that the NeXT port was broken between NetBSD 5.2.something and 10.0 (fixed thanks to Izumi Tsutsui)...
LilyBryght 🏳️⚧️ ♀️ 🩷
John W. O'Brien@lilybryght @gumnos @mwl Now I want Stephen Colbert to do a Meanwhile intro that features an electrified roadkill carcass running NetBSD.
endrift 🏳️⚧️
Nathan Arthur (OLD ACCOUNT)
vermadenI have run FreeBSD with 2 x 2TB ZFS mirror with 512 MB RAM for years - and IMHO 256 MB is also fine for FreeBSD with ZFS with these two in /etc/sysctl.conf file:
# ZFS ARC MIN 32MB
vfs.zfs.arc.min=33554432
# ZFS ARC MAX 64MB
vfs.zfs.arc.max=67108864
With FreeBSD on UFS/SUJ 128MB will also be fine.
... and that 'last two decades' CPU limit is only for not-yet-released FreeBSD 15.x.
With FreeBSD 14 and older versions you need Pentium Pro or compatible - which means 1995 CPU - 3 decades.
... but yes - NetBSD will literally run on anything :D
Kusuriya (kk7hut)
Riley S. Faelan
Thomas Mayer