But returning, if possible, to the original question ...
On Thu Oct 4 19:23:41 2012, Tito Mari Francis Escaño wrote:
> I'd like to seek your advise what new laptop brand and model should I buy
> that is fully functional (video, LAN, Wifi, sound) with OpenBSD 5.x.
> ...
I have also been considering exactly this issue. Currently I'm using
an "elderly" Thinkpad R61 with Fedora (Nvidia hardware) and XFCE. Frankly
I'm starting to get a bit cheesed of with the seemingly ever increasing
complexity or "cruft" of Linux and have been wondering what to do next.
Also that R61 seems to be getting heavier and heavier :-)
Well I don't fancy Windows. And while Macbook hardware looks both light
and attractive, I'm not convinced that I'd really be any better off ...
Can it be that there is really no good current solution using OpenBSD?
Some Internet searching indicated that there are people using OpenBSD on
laptops (including Apple laptop hardware?) but I also see a lot of issues
mentioned e.g. in the areas of suspend/resume, wireless networking and
power management. At least some of this info. maybe dated or simply
cargo.
I know I talked to Theo once at EuroBSDcon (2011? - Karlsruhe anyway) and
I got the impression that a lot of work was going on then to improve acpi
support. Does that continue to be the case? I guess I'm really asking if
laptop platform support is a goal for OpenBSD?
Would it be possible/feasible to sponsor the development of the necessary
features/fixes in some way?
My day to day requirements are quite basic: a lightweight, fast system,
offering the standard Unix toolset and providing solid networking support
(wired + wireless) together with good battery life (e.g. 4 or 5 hours).
On top I typically use mutt, curl, ssh, screen/tmux, firefox, evince,
libreoffice, etc. A windowing system desktop is necessary, but XFCE is
fine for me - GNOME has gone a step too far (imho).
Actually what might be ideal would be the new Google/Samsung Chromebook
but with the ChromeOS replaced by OpenBSD - cheap too at ~200 UK Pounds.
Comments?
Yours,
Robb.
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling in his "Just So Stories"
