Until I really wanted to mess with vmm(4) late last year (thus requiring me to move to a more portly i5 laptop), my daily driver was a Toshiba NB305, on which I've run OpenBSD since 2011. It still comes out to play whenever I need excellent battery life and/or a light carry load-out. Everything from WiFi to screen brightness, volume control and suspend worked out of the box with OpenBSD back then, and still does today. I max'd it out to 2GB of RAM. Gmail in Chromium and/or Firefox is usable. HTML5 videos play fine on YouTube in Chromium. But I wouldn't call it an enjoyable experience by any stretch, but OpenBSD runs better on that old thing than Windows 7 starter, Ubuntu, Arch or Debian ever did.
GeminiPDA (I won't link to it here) has piqued my interest, but if it comes to fruition the way many crowd-funded hardware projects go, I am not holding my breath for OpenBSD on it. I have a small fleet of HP Jornadas (mostly 720s) that run NetBSD/hpcarm well, and the Gemini seems like it would scratch that itch for something similar in stature with more than 205 MHz and 32MB of RAM. On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:20 PM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > On 03/29/17 05:51, Luke Small wrote: > > I thought I read that there is an arm7 based mobile device, but I can't > > find anything about it. > > > > Not quite as tiny, but in more capable in almost every way are the > netbooks of a few years ago. In addition to being small and portable, > they can have real networking (wireless (sometimes with a hw swapout) > and wired), several USB devices attached, huge (relatively speaking) > disks installed, lots of RAM, usable keyboards, etc. > > With lots of patience (and some swap), can even run modern browsers on > them. > > Nick.
