OpenBSD laptops

Re:OpenBSD laptops by autoreleasepool on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:13PM (#10897117)

I've never tried OpenBSD, but it seems to have better laptop/desktop support. Maybe I'll fire up an instance in a VM tonight and play around a bit.

Is there anything significantly different right off the bat from someone coming from the FreeBSD world?

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Re:OpenBSD laptops by frenkel on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:22PM (#10897191)

Only binary patches for base provided by a third party (M:Tier, where a number of OpenBSD developers work).

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Re:OpenBSD laptops by fnordo on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:25PM (#10897212)

I haven't run FBSD in years so I can't comment but I highly recommend OBSD for laptops (obviously with supported hardware).

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Re:OpenBSD laptops by niels_olson on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @08:44PM (#10899089)

I set up an OBSD laptop, an ancient Dell Inspiron 8000. Based on the experience, I'd like to get a lightweight, cheap, relatively modern laptop. Any recommendations? Cheapest thinkpad I can find?

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Re:OpenBSD laptops by jlgaddis on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:48AM (#10901313)

Did you read the article? Ted specifically mentioned a few laptops by name.

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Re:OpenBSD laptops by SixSigma on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:05PM (#10902645)

X201 - swap the HD for an SSD and enjoy.

Unless you want to enjoy Bluetooth of course :)

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Re:OpenBSD laptops by fnordo on Thursday January 14, 2016 @10:37AM (#10901985)

Thinkpad x200's are perfect in my experience and dirt cheap

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