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OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 11 2017, @12:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the open-sesame dept.

canopic jug writes:

Peter N. M. Hansteen walks through use of OpenBSD on a modern laptop in his latest blog post. While OpenBSD has a good reputation for servers and routers, many do not realize how well it works on laptops with supported hardware. He's been running it as the only OS on his laptops for well over a decade at this point and shares his experience with recent hardware. OpenBSD is clean, organized, and predictable. It does what you configure it to do, and only that, with no backtalk or second-guessing — like from other systems. Its documentation is second to none.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday July 11 2017, @01:45PM (3 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday July 11 2017, @01:45PM (#537576) Journal

    OpenBSD is a favorite of mine. A very simple and clean Unix with a group of smart people behind it. I have it running on an older IBM Thinkpad T40 and I have had no problems with it. Install, add firefox, goto youtube.com and play a video with sound. Also runs on really old hardware without much fuss such as a Pentium 3 on an intel 440BX chipset.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @07:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @07:31PM (#537756)

    Thanks for this, I've got a T40 sitting around, might give OpenBSD a try.

  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:03AM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:03AM (#537856)

    Also runs on really old hardware without much fuss such as a Pentium 3 on an intel 440BX chipset.

    Seriously? That's amazing! I had a machine with that chipset in the late 1990's. (I'm pretty sure it was that long ago).

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:00PM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:00PM (#538028) Journal

      I had it running only recently too so it's not like it's an old version of OpenBSD, think it was 5.9 or 6.0. Current version is 6.1. Disk was a 16GB compact flash card and video was an older 4MB PCI card (forget the video chipset). My predecessor at work bought tons of old RAM and I had a fist full of new 256MB ECC SDRAM so I stuffed the board with 1GB, the maximum.