Hi Woodchuck et al, I see you're a Woodchuck indeed!
Nice to see there are people like you around... when I think that my friends think I am a kind of wood chuck like you because I haven't run windows for some seven years, I must laugh Don't complain about pcs! Think of what people use to "work"! MacOSX, for instance, that FreeBSD corrupted thing. Somebody brainwashed me here at the Institute and told me I should ask for a Mac (the institute provides us with a laptop to work) because it was like a magic *nix box in which everything was working out of the box (of course, propietary things work like that) and since I became father recently I though "well, what the heck, let's try it, I don't want to spend too many time with a machine and I prefer to spend it with my child". After two weeks I could not stand it any more and I installed GNU/Linux on it because you will not believe it, but if you want a MacOSX box running the normal-everyday applications, like zsh, tex, gv, a DECENT TERMINAL you have to spend something like 40 times more time than installing OBSD on a spectrum 48k... But still under GNU/Linux many things were not working, among them the airport extreme wlan card... and as I said, it's crucial for me... In any case it was such a pain, sooooo slow, sooo noisy, so hot, so... that I gave it back and asked for a glorious pc and got a fujitsu siemens lifebook p7010 and I tell you something: it's the best laptop I've ever had. Now I want it running O'BSD! The O'bsd mailing list has been kind of frustrating... I was expecting something miraculous but it's not much from what I get out of this newbies list... Bye, Pau 2006/11/28, Woodchuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Vim Visual wrote: > > > Woodchuck, you're talking in Chinese! I'm doing my best and I'm > > reading the Absolute book in the tram everyday but I guess an easier > > solution for dmesg would be to use LAN or a flash usb gimmick ;) > > Heh. That was actually written in Old Hackish. I'm a fossil. I > own two real VT-101 terminals. I actually have one wired up and > in intermittent use. I'm sentimental about them. It's worth it > once to use vi on the keyboard/screen that it was (probably) designed > on. (The escape key is convenient, and CTRL is where the PeeCee > weirdly put the useless "capslock" key. There is no "ALT".) > > But linking two com ports for either login via a terminal emulator > or setting up ppp networking is a Worthy Exercise. If the LAN > won't start, then you need a console. It is considered Bad Form > to boot a "rescue diskette" if other means are still available. > (Like if you do something -- say, run Mozilla :-) -- that crashes > X and locks up your keyboard. This can usually be fixed over > a serial line without rebooting. Rebooting = more Bad Form -- > I suspect that attitude is why the *nixes tend to be able to > go so long without it.) > > One of the real drawbacks of the PeeCee architecture is its lack > of a true console over a RS-232 port. (I mean one that works as > console from power on.) I guess now there are various rack-mount > type servers that can do this. I probably own two, but haven't > gotten around to trying it. That and an actual ROM *console* program > that can *do* things. A rescue diskette, actually, comes close to > this, very close. It's surprising what one can do with one in a > pinch. That the BSD one will get your network working, at least > in a limited way, is something of a happy miracle. That it is the > same as the install/upgrade diskette is Very Happy. > > > I am starting to become addicted to OBSD and am looking forward to > > OpenBSD is orderly, like the barracks of an elite, high-morale > regiment. The amount of labor this saves in the long run is worth it. > There are some people that just can't come to like this, though. > > > switching my production laptop OS to it asap but wlan is crucial for > > me. Fortunately the crashbox and the production laptop have the same > > wlan chip, so that when I've figured out what's the problem I will do > > the move. The hardware is not broken because it worked pretty well > > with the debian-based ubuntu > > I hear repeated rumors of wifi equipped, functional O'bsd systems. > I have seen with my own eyes a NetBSD laptop with working wifi. > > > And yes, I have googled, yahooed and even googlebsd'ed but found > > nothing... or I am blind > > > > I have posted the question to the OBSD mailing list misc... let's see > > whether they throw me to the lion's pit :) > > Well, let's see what happens. > > Dave > -- > "Confound these wretched rodents! For every one I fling away, > a dozen more vex me!" -- Doctor Doom > _______________________________________________ > Openbsd-newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies > _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
