Re: Default Revival of a ten years old computer : how would you do it?

2023-11-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, h...@mailo.com wrote: i have tested "recent" openbsd releases, since 2022, and almost all of them are a bit slow with xfce/firefox etc. i was wondering, for laptops range of 2013/16 years old, what would you recommmend them for a common web browsing using openbsd? I like to run BSD and

Re: Default Revival of a ten years old computer : how would you do it?

2023-11-07 Thread Zé Loff
On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 11:29:22AM +0100, h...@mailo.com wrote: > > > since few months im discovering openbsd ; as linux has been often > recommended for windows's users with a very slow system, i guess that > it's not that unadvised to use openbsd with a GUI for web browsing and > little

Re: Default Revival of a ten years old computer : how would you do it?

2023-11-06 Thread Ampie Niemand
On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 11:29:22AM +0100, h...@mailo.com wrote: > > > since few months im discovering openbsd ; as linux has been often recommended > for windows's users with a very slow system, i guess that it's not that > unadvised to use openbsd with a GUI for web browsing and little

Re: Default Revival of a ten years old computer : how would you do it?

2023-11-06 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 06 11:29:22, h...@mailo.com wrote: > since few months im discovering openbsd ; as linux has been often recommended > for windows's users with a very slow system, i guess that it's not that > unadvised to use openbsd with a GUI for web browsing and little software (eg > LO, gimp..) the

Re: Default Revival of a ten years old computer : how would you do it?

2023-11-06 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 1:14 PM wrote: > > since few months im discovering openbsd ; as linux has been often > recommended for windows's users with a very slow system, i guess that it's > not that unadvised to use openbsd with a GUI for web browsing and little > software (eg LO, gimp..) >

Re: Default Revival of a ten years old computer : how would you do it?

2023-11-06 Thread Daniele B.
You are out of luck, many of us are with old hardware as well and they are very happy with the latest releases of OpenBSD. Then when you talk about your legacy hardware you do not quote any cpu or ram spec. Eventually to start a good dialog you need to do that. -- Daniele Bonini Nov 6, 2023

Re: Default Revival of a ten years old computer : how would you do it?

2023-11-06 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 11:29:22AM +0100, h...@mailo.com wrote: > what would you recommmend them for a common web browsing using openbsd? The surf browser in www/surf works quite well on older hardware.