As a colophon, if you’re using x86 or amd64, m:tier provides binary updates for packages, much like Linux does. Unfortunately, if there is any bug in the base system you’ll need to recompile the kernel and userland yourself.
Not so. Spoiler: they support both base system and packages.
Hi, OP here. This is actually the second revision of the text; I got some awesome feedback from other OpenBSD users and tried to improve it. I’ll be happy to hear your opinion and fix any errors that may still be on the text, since this is my first time with a BSD and its idiosyncrasies – thanks journeysquid!
I’m a few days into using OpenBSD on my laptop. I love how simple things are and the documentation is ridiculously good. Firefox is really slow though, youtuve videos are choppy. Compiling haskell is slow as well. I haven’t figured out if the firefox/youtube video stuff is driver related, I suspect the haskell stuff is SMP related.
Im on a lenovo/thinkpad x230,which i think is supposed to be well supported. Suspend and brightness control work excellently, brightness doesnt even work on debian for me.
My early experiences switching from Windows to Linux (also with a side of BeOS) were astonishingly similar to the author, although after my Gentoo phase I actually ran FreeBSD for several months before settling on Mac OS X.
The author seems confused on what M:Tier’s -stable tools do: https://stable.mtier.org/
As a colophon, if you’re using x86 or amd64, m:tier provides binary updates for packages, much like Linux does. Unfortunately, if there is any bug in the base system you’ll need to recompile the kernel and userland yourself.
Not so. Spoiler: they support both base system and packages.
Hi, OP here. This is actually the second revision of the text; I got some awesome feedback from other OpenBSD users and tried to improve it. I’ll be happy to hear your opinion and fix any errors that may still be on the text, since this is my first time with a BSD and its idiosyncrasies – thanks journeysquid!
I’m a few days into using OpenBSD on my laptop. I love how simple things are and the documentation is ridiculously good. Firefox is really slow though, youtuve videos are choppy. Compiling haskell is slow as well. I haven’t figured out if the firefox/youtube video stuff is driver related, I suspect the haskell stuff is SMP related.
Sounds like you might be on the vesa driver. What kind of laptop is it?
Im on a lenovo/thinkpad x230,which i think is supposed to be well supported. Suspend and brightness control work excellently, brightness doesnt even work on debian for me.
My x230 was well supported, though the x230 and t440s were the two lenovo machines that led to my first non-Thinkpad laptop in a very long while.
My early experiences switching from Windows to Linux (also with a side of BeOS) were astonishingly similar to the author, although after my Gentoo phase I actually ran FreeBSD for several months before settling on Mac OS X.