Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

65 points | by zdw 3 hours ago

5 comments

  • bentley 1 hour ago
    The NetSurf browser the author tried out has multiple frontends. Two run on OpenBSD that I know of, the “default” GTK frontend and an SDL‐based framebuffer frontend. As was pointed out, GTK has a rather sizeable number of dependencies; building the framebuffer frontend instead would save a lot of time.
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    • classichasclass 1 hour ago
      (author) Is there a way to specifically build the framebuffer version from the ports tree? I didn't see one.
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    • anthk 24 minutes ago
      Mainline Dillo runs faster and smoother, it's just an fltk + git clone && configure +make install away.
  • JdeBP 2 hours ago
    The wsconscfg problem with multiple screens, whatever it exactly is, is decidedly odd. According to this, the display is being driven as smfb0 in what is largely a dumb framebuffer mode, no acceleration, no GPU, no fancy high jinks whatsoever. wscons/wsdisplay should have no difficulty with multiple screens on that sort of thing.
  • shrubble 1 hour ago
    It’s tough to find them on eBay; I wonder what the right search terms are?
  • anthk 2 hours ago
    No computer is obsolete with a BSD. I still use an n270 netbook daily.
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    • iberator 41 minutes ago
      Acer aspire one with NetBSD
  • stevefan1999 3 hours ago
    I still think it is very cursed to see that image of RMS using that laptop despite I was shocked to see it 12 years ago. Still shocks me to this day.
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    • em-bee 3 hours ago
      what is shocking about it?
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      • sellmesoap 1 hour ago
        I think because it's RMS champion of digital openess using using an archaine Chinese laptop, it's the dichotomy of China providing a product that's essentially more free (of binary blob firmware) then a western equivalent laptop. Take heed and dispare oh ye providers of win modems!