Nick Schmidt on setting up an OpenBSD laptop

By Steven Rosenberg on May 3, 2011 12:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

Nick Schmidt's blog has more (better) OpenBSD tips than anyone these days (and his are way better than mine because he knows more).

Most recent is OpenBSD Laptop mini-HOWTO, which has quick tips to get the particular model he chose (Lenovo u150, a hint that this particular laptop is BSD- and Linux friendly) with a few hardware-agnostic pointers, especially on getting video chat going.

Other worthwhile entries include:

Debian Server vs. Ubuntu Server

And pretty much the only entry of its kind (written in the last year and pertaining to "modern" OpenBSD):

Configuring OpenBSD softraid for encryption

One of these days I will do an install this very way ...

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