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All of the openbsd devs use thinkpads and they have good compatibility in my experience. The newest ones might have UEFI and they might not work well.
by dmm 12y ago
All of the openbsd devs use thinkpads and they have good compatibility in my experience. The newest ones might have UEFI and they might not work well.
- CoconutPilot 12y agoI heard this and installed OpenBSD on my thinkpad only to find out there is no support for nVidia. I suppose you need ATI or Intel video to get a working X. There is a brief warning about nVidia here: http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html
- ams6110 12y agoCheck wifi adapter support also (in general, not specifically on ThinkPads).
- dmm 12y agoEverybody else supports nvidia chips by running a big blog of proprietary code in the kernel. That kind of defeats the purpose of openbsd, right?
- techdragon 12y agoThat's it in a nutshell.
- _delirium 12y agoDebian doesn't support them with a big binary blob; by default, it supports nvidia chips with an open-source driver (nouveau), which works fine for most things other than 3d gaming. It just hasn't been ported to OpenBSD yet, though there is interest in doing so [1]. [1] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/gsoc2014.html#nouveau http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/gsoc2014.html#nouveau