Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

[Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost>]

My "intel" laptop is a Lenovo X200 running 8.1 and works great. As far as the "daily driver" goes I still rely on my Mac because my knowledge of NetBSD and crafting a stable desktop is shaky at best... albeit getting better. I do most of my python development on a box running current. All my learning of Rust is on the same box. Almost all my SANS course "homework" is done on that machine. There are a few things that keep me from using my NetBSD box as my daily driver. One is Firefox (v65) crashes regularly. Still trying to figure out why. Video is a little "ify," but that’s most likely due to my ignorance of setting up my intel video. Mate has a core dump from time to time. Audio is still an unexplored frontier, so iTunes it is for now. Other "todo" is to learn xen (or qemu?) in order to be able to run the prebuilt VMs the SANS people build for their courses. So that makes me part of the larger percentage of the "almost daily driver" crowd.

This made me wonder why others chose NetBSD as a desktop or server. I wonder if there is a place we can go to articulate why NetBSD is our poison of choice. I mean, why NetBSD over FreeBSD or OpenBSD or dragonfly or fill-in-the-blank-BSD?

On 6/22/19, 6:33 PM, "Chris Humphries" <netbsd-users-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost on behalf of chris%sogubsys.com@localhost> wrote:

    Suggestions weren't mind-blowing or anything, but the usual suspects:
    Thinkpads and people saying some random laptop mostly works for them.
    
    Mostly, it seems folks don't really run NetBSD on laptops, and if they
    do they're silent about it.
    I personally suspect most people run NetBSD as on servers,
    virtualization (virtualbox or qemu), or toys like old machines/ports
    and arm boards. I'd guess a very small percentage of NetBSD users use
    it as a daily driver.
    
    
    On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:52 PM U'll Be King Of The Stars
    <ullbeking%andrewnesbit.org@localhost> wrote:
    >
    > Good choice, Chris!
    >
    > Is it possible to collect the suggestions that others gave you and send them around, either privately, or publicly to the list? I am looking for a Thinkpad too (anything that starts with X or T and ends in #00, #20, or #30) but it doesn't _have_ to be a TP.
    >
    > So far my attempts with my X230 been a bit frustrating.
    >
    > Andrew
    >
    > On 21 June 2019 16:09:50 BST, Chris Humphries <chris%sogubsys.com@localhost> wrote:
    >>
    >> Ended up simply ordering a Thinkpad T420 off eBay for $200. Better
    >> specs than I currently have and well supported.
    >>
    >> Thanks for all that gave me recommendations via this email, IRC, and
    >> Twitter.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 08:59:09PM +0000, Chris Humphries wrote:
    >>>
    >>> Hello Hivemind,
    >>>
    >>> I'm shopping for a new laptop and would like to have a laptop with
    >>> very good NetBSD support (ethernet and wireless networking works,
    >>> graphics works using the graphics card in a non-generic way,
    >>> suspend/resume works, trackpad).
    >>>
    >>> https://wiki.netbsd.org/laptops/ exists - but like many wiki pages,
    >>> how current it is is questionable and may be rotten. Also, most of the
    >>> laptops are very old.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> What is your laptop recommendation for running NetBSD bare-metal?
    >>>
    >>> Thank you,
    >>> Chris
    >>>
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