Openbsd
Most of my workstations are laptops. But because “age”, they are connected to an external 27" 4K monitor. It is used as my primary display and the laptop’s screen is disabled. And as I use WindowMaker as my daily window manager, I sometimes blank myself when I unplug the USB-C cable from the laptop.
There must be a way to automatically switch to the proper display when some USB-C monitors are (dis)connected… Other than switching to using Xfce, KDE, Gnome and other DEs that already implement this feature.Continue reading...
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...
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...
This is an attempt at building an OpenBSD desktop than could be used by newcomers or by people that don’t care about tinkering with computers and just want a working daily driver for general tasks.
Somebody will obviously need to know a bit of UNIX but we’ll try to limit it to the minimum.Continue reading...