Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote to T. Valent: > IF your hardware is so anemic that it can't run GENERIC, I think you > will do much better getting more realistic hardware
I differ. I have an old, very old laptop, running OpenBSD. The value of the laptop is not "the hardware", but its use as typewriter - and much more - and not risking that it be stolen in a publich library when one leaves it for a while. It is not only a typewriter, I can surf with lynx, get files with ftp, read mail, etc. Perhaps for a computer hacker this is nothing, for me it is of great value. I think also for a hacker some years ago would have been of great value, a dream. Unfortunately I couldt compile the kernel: just the tar-ball was too big for the laptop, for the disc, for the ram. > welcome to the "ignore" list of many developers. Few days ago I was also welcomed to a kill file, just for insisting a little that com.unix.bsd.openbsd.announce is not useless: for me as a casual user and perhaps for the whole project, for attracting people to it, then joining a mailing list, even if it is with gmane, supposes a previous involvement. Rodrigo.
