LKM(4) support had mostly been only "compile tested" for years. Practically nothing used it, and at the time of it's removal the ports tree contained a single module.. a firmware flasher for some old Dell servers.
OpenBSD tends to re-engineer things rather than use reference implementations - for example, their ACPI (power management) interface is a ground up implementation, whereas most others are simply copies of Intel's code: http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/events/131.en.html
I've been using Linux for many many years and do it for a living but I've somehow always glossed over BSD and never spent much time learning about it so I'm genuinely wondering... Those of you who'd prefer BSD over Linux, why?
Interesting. I want a "developer-class" laptop. Well-built, moderately fast, reliable. The reviews on Amazon for that X240 complain about a crappy trackpad. Wonder if there are other good options.
The trackpad on this series is not the greatest - I'm finding precision not very good. (X230 running Xubuntu 14.04.) There's probably some setting to make it less annoying.
Probably not anything new from Asus. I just recently purchased one, and it's pure UEFI. The newest models have begun removing the options to enable "legacy mode", so you can't run legacy operating systems anymore.
This will probably become more and more common, and after the next couple years it will be extremely hard to find any good laptop that would run openBSD.
It is possible to install OpenBSD on vultr.com by using the custom ISO procedure. I got one last month, and it works great. You can also try using the SSDVPS coupon code to gain $20 of credit (it worked last month, but I can't seem to find if it's still active).
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And to configure an already compiled kernel with UKC:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq//faq5.html#BootConfig
So most of the time there's little need for kernel modules.
Just kidding. It is impressive how the OpenBSD developers manage to stick to their release schedule.
OpenBSD is basically entirely volunteers.
As someone used to the trackpoint on an X201, yes, it is practically unusable.
This will probably become more and more common, and after the next couple years it will be extremely hard to find any good laptop that would run openBSD.
Glad to see postgres 9.4 in packages, and more improvements to libressl.
Anybody got an opinion on a decent openbsd vps?
I've been with them about five years now. No real issues during this time.