Sun Blade 100

2014-12-13 Thread Richard E. Thornton
It took a few days, back and forth, as time permitted, but I have this old blade, with two 15 GB drives, and 2 GB RAM running nicely with OpenBSD 5.6. I think that I have the RELEASE version. I have installed apline mailer, firefox, R, nano, python, anjuta. It's pretty good. I am trying to s

Re: OpenBSD 5.6 - amd64 on Lenovo G480

2014-12-15 Thread Richard E. Thornton
I don't have this particular Lenovo, but the three that I do have, a W530, a B590, and a V470 all work fine with either OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, or Fedora. On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, bodie wrote: > On 15.12.2014 04:46, Leonardo Santagostini wrote: > > Hello bodie, > > > > Tried snapshot with same results.

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Richard E. Thornton
What is digital ocean? On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that DigitalOcean's BSD debut is going to be FreeBSD only. We, in > the OpenBSD community, are being asked to open up a separate UserVoice vote > for OpenBSD -- despite the fact that we've worked so h

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Richard E. Thornton
So, its a cloud based server farm? What's the point for the typical user? On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > On 16. desember 2014 at 4:17 PM, "Lars" wrote: > > > >Says who? Now it's digital ocean - next month it will be somebody > >else. > > > >I seem to fall out of

Web Browsers crashing

2014-12-21 Thread Richard E. Thornton
I have found that all browsers, either firefox31, or midori, or epiphany, crash immediately under OpenBSD 5.6 with the sparc64 architecture. They all seem to work fine with my amd64 installation. I have even tried to compile the ports myself, which always successfully compile, but always the sa

Re: OpenBSD and disk slowliness

2015-01-09 Thread Richard E. Thornton
I am using OpenBSD 5.6 in a VMware 64 bit VM as guest, Ubuntu 14.10 as host, and performance seems quite acceptable. How do you know that there are any bugs or issues which need to be addressed? On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Kent Fritz wrote: > Hopefully this is not too bad advice... > > I've found th

Bluetooth Support

2015-07-23 Thread Richard E. Thornton
I am just curious - is Bluetooth supported on any bluetooth enabled computers? Or is this a dead topic? Richard