A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To

Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by dijit on Saturday August 27, 2016 @07:37AM (#12371918)

I would recommend OpenBSD for laptops. I'm not sure why, but my machine under FreeBSD had similar power issues and enabling apmd did nothing to resolve them.

I installed OpenBSD because someone said it supports think pads better and they were absolutely right, my machine is cool, quiet and the battery lasts ages. OpenBSD also requires X11 to be installed for ports to work, so maybe it is designed more for desktop use?

For reference I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad x201s

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by Assembly64 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @07:50AM (#12371956)

But will the FreeBSD Nvidia driver work in OpenBSD?

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by floatboth on Saturday August 27, 2016 @08:06AM (#12371995)

No.

They make their driver for Solaris though :D

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by groovy2shoes on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:52PM (#12384230)

The OpenBSD developers dogfood the OS on their own laptops (mostly Thinkpads). I'd imagine that's one big reason why it works so well. In contrast, I've heard (but have not verified) that many FreeBSD devs do much of their work on macOS, and ssh to or virtualize FreeBSD.

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