[nycbug-talk] laptop?

Ray Lai nycbug at cyth.net
Sun Sep 17 21:00:17 EDT 2006


On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 04:22:54PM -0400, Josh McCormack wrote:
> I'm shopping for a laptop to use OpenBSD on, likely dual booting with
> Windows XP (yeah, I know).

If you can, try booting an OpenBSD live CD (such as anonym.os) at the
store to make sure it works.

> Two things -
> 
> 1) http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html is so woefully out of date
> and thin on info. It should be more like http://jcs.org/laptops/ and

That's not really true, people have been submitting updated laptop
descriptions.  Sure, the descriptions are scant, but not everyone is a
writer.  Many contain dmesgs and xorg.confs as well.

-Ray-



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