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I often try various OSes on my spare laptops. This is where Ventoy turned out to be really useful. If you don’t know, Ventoy is a free bootloader that looks like Grub and let you boot whichever ISO files you put on the USB key it is installed. Just copy / paste the ISO on the dedicated USB key partition and it’s ready to boot.
It works from Windows, Linux but not on OpenBSD. Well… until I discovered some error messages didn’t mean what I thought they did…Continue reading...
By default, FreeBSD 14.1 does not recognized the multimedia keys of my NuPhy Field75 USB keyboard. Worse than that, the (beloved) metal knob used for volume control doesn’t work either.
Hopefully, after a bunch of readings & trials & errors, I ended up finding the configuration bits required to have it fully working!Continue reading...
My initial questionning was on the opportunity to run a desktop environment using virtual machines provided by the OpenBSD vmd(8). But vmd(8) doesn’t feature graphics, as of OpenBSD 7.5. Let’s see if this can be achieved anyway.Continue reading...
A year ago, I wrote about multibooting Windows, Linux and OpenBSD on my laptop. Since then, lots have happened. The most relevant part is that Linux is gone and I only multiboot Windows and OpenBSD.
If I had done it from the beginning, I would have used rEFInd rather than Grub. And here’s how.Continue reading...
To create the “OpenBSD Workstation for the People PeerTube” video, I used KDEnlive on OpenBSD.
But for reasons, I also had to use other tools.Continue reading...