[talk] Ike's OpenBSD laptop meeting

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Sat Jan 31 16:34:03 EST 2015


On Jan 31,  4:30pm, george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) wrote:
-- Subject: [talk] Ike's OpenBSD laptop meeting

| First, the meeting has some volition... seems to be connecting to a lot
| of people.   More publicity is always good :)
| 
| There's been something of a resurgence of interest in the BSDs for a
| variety of reasons.  For some, it's a 'push' from the Linuxes with the
| systemd adoption.
| 
| Second, Ike's meeting is not really an installfest, but aimed at the
| more general question of running OpenBSD on a laptop.  If there's
| interest in an installfest, we can certainly set up something.
| 
| For those who don't have a laptop to test out OpenBSD on and don't have
| an extra disk to install it on, I recommend hitting Ebay for a Thinkpad,
| even an ancient one.  An x120e works nicely, and believe it or not, an
| x60/61 is sufficient also.  Don't pay a lot for either, and you'll
| probably need to buy a new battery.
| 
| Note that the meeting is on February 10th, the SECOND TUESDAY of the month.

On this subject, which BSD runs on:

	http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9343-laptop/pd

And what peripherals don't we have drivers for?

christos


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