• day zero (this post)
• day one: installing NetBSD on an old Costco laptop
• day two: making a .png using latex and ImageMagick
• day three: customizing ctwm
• day four: OpenBSD httpd and serving compressed content
• day five: Fun on SDF, Improved homelab breakdown, setting up fingerd on OpenBSD
• day six: Using curl, jq, groff to make tables of baseball standings
• day seven: break day, no computer stuff

This seems like fun, so I wanted to play along. The oldest computers laying around my house are two old laptops - one an HP Stream from 2016 and the other an HP Envy from 2015-ish(?)

I installed NetBSD 10.1 on the older of the two, the HP Envy, and am now running ctwm as my window manager. No browser installed, I plan to use lynx. I installed that using pkgin for binary packages.

My only plan for day one thus far is to try and install gnuplot and visualize some Fourier series expansions, since I have been studying those a bit and want to explore more.

Here's a pic of the setup so far:

Hardware + Software:

• HP Envy from Costco circa 2015
• Processor is intel i7 (four cores)
• Memory is 16GB

This is pretty nice, but I am keeping it basic with the software, and no firefox or fancy browser.

• NetBSD 10.1
• pkgin
• ctwm
• lynx
• gnuplot

I am going to read up on the re ethernet driver I'm using, and look into the state of the drivers in NetBSD for whatever wifi card I have in this beast. This thing is an absolute unit, a Costco tank my mom handed me down about 7 years ago. I used to use it to compile LLVM and it has run FreeBSD in the past. Tomorrow I'll play more with gnuplot on there...

I'll add more to the posts list as I go. Thanks for visiting!

I also have an old rack server in the basement, you can read more here: Eric's Datacenter

I also have a gopher hole at gopher://geedangit.com