Re: New laptop time

"After that experience I switched to owning pairs of slightly older/cheaper laptops, so I always have a spare on hand." That's what I do, too, with X series Thinkpads, currently just on the X260 but my needs are minimal. On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > In

Re: New laptop time

In , Courtney Hicks wrote: > I'm looking at replacing my current laptop, so I wanted to see what's good > that other people are using. Since so many attributes of a laptop are mutually exclusive, the answers to "what's a good laptop" depend

Request for open-vm-tools Package on OpenBSD

Hello, At the end of last year, I installed OpenBSD 7.6 as a VMware Guest for the first time. I am enjoying using it with the xfce4 Desktop, and I’m very impressed with it. However, there is one thing I would like to mention. I’m sure this has been requested many times, but having an open-vm

Re: New laptop time

I use refurbished Thinkpads. I have OpenBSD on an X270 at the moment. 8GB ram, works great. You get a lot of value for your money with them. /niels Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 02:55, Courtney Hicks <[courtney@courtnix.systems](mailto:On Sun

Re: Request for open-vm-tools Package on OpenBSD

On Sun, Jan 05, 2025 at 09:13:14PM +0900, Kyo Ichikawa wrote: > Hello, > > At the end of last year, I installed OpenBSD 7.6 as a VMware Guest for the > first time. > I am enjoying using it with the xfce4 Desktop, and I’m very impressed with > it. > > However, there is one thing I would like to me

Re: Request for open-vm-tools Package on OpenBSD

On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 13:13:14 +0100, Kyo Ichikawa wrote: > > I tried downloading it from GitHub and building it myself, but I > couldn’t succeed. Is it due to licensing issues that it’s not included? > If so, that’s truly unfortunate. > As far as I can see it has at least GPL license which is ok

Re: Request for open-vm-tools Package on OpenBSD

as im sure others have mentioned... right there at the main-result of search... Decomm at end-of-Jan-2025 open-vm-tools is not something that is even designed with ob

Re: Request for open-vm-tools Package on OpenBSD

On 1/5/25 07:13, Kyo Ichikawa wrote: ... However, there is one thing I would like to mention. I’m sure this has been requested many times, but having an open-vm-tools package would be a great help. in what way? Tell us the PROBLEM you are trying to solve, rather than your perceived solution. N

Re: Request for open-vm-tools Package on OpenBSD

On 2025-01-05, Kirill A Korinsky wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 13:13:14 +0100, > Kyo Ichikawa wrote: >> >> I tried downloading it from GitHub and building it myself, but I >> couldn’t succeed. Is it due to licensing issues that it’s not included? >> If so, that’s truly unfortunate. >> > > As far