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> In fact, I've found it to be a perfect fit for a couple of old laptops in my collection. I recently inherited an old-ish laptop (I don't know the exact year
by krylon 11y ago
> In fact, I've found it to be a perfect fit for a couple of old laptops in my collection.
I recently inherited an old-ish laptop (I don't know the exact year it was built, but it has a Windows Vista sticker on it, so 2007-2009, I guess) and decided to install OpenBSD on it, mainly because I have always wanted to give it a try on real hardware as opposed to a VM.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that all the pieces I care about (sound, video, wifi, ethernet, ...) Just Worked(tm). That was nice. More heavyweight applications like Firefox or Clementine slow the system down substantially, but otherwise it runs nicely.
- hackuser 11y ago> More heavyweight applications like Firefox or Clementine slow the system down substantially Systems in 2007 had no problem running Firefox. I'm surprised to hear it has a significant impact. Maybe Firefox has become much more resource intensive? That would surprise me because processors haven't gotten much faster, Mozilla has focused on reducing memory consumption and improving responsiveness, and because of the rise of mobile, a resource-constrained environment.
- krylon 11y agoThe system has 2GB of RAM, so that should not be a problem. However, the CPU is a Celeron M, which is really, really slow.