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userbinator 17 minutes ago [-]
I don't think these machines achieved much popularity in China either, as standard PCs were far more common and compatible with the existing software base.
the keyboard and trackpad are internally PS/2.
Interesting that the PC influence is still there, although I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports. I remember having a similar moment of surprise when I played around with an ARM VM and discovered it had a "VGA-compatible" GPU emulating an old ISA-class chip.
bentley 3 hours ago [-]
The NetSurf browser the author tried out has multiple frontends. Two run on OpenBSD that I know of, the “default” GTK frontend and an SDL‐based framebuffer frontend. As was pointed out, GTK has a rather sizeable number of dependencies; building the framebuffer frontend instead would save a lot of time.
classichasclass 2 hours ago [-]
(author) Is there a way to specifically build the framebuffer version from the ports tree? I didn't see one.
bentley 2 hours ago [-]
/usr/ports/www/netsurf/netsurf-fb/
classichasclass 1 hours ago [-]
Thanks, I'll try that.
anthk 1 hours ago [-]
Mainline Dillo runs faster and smoother, it's just an fltk + git clone && configure +make install away.
JdeBP 4 hours ago [-]
The wsconscfg problem with multiple screens, whatever it exactly is, is decidedly odd. According to this, the display is being driven as smfb0 in what is largely a dumb framebuffer mode, no acceleration, no GPU, no fancy high jinks whatsoever. wscons/wsdisplay should have no difficulty with multiple screens on that sort of thing.
anthk 3 hours ago [-]
No computer is obsolete with a BSD. I still use an n270 netbook daily.
iberator 2 hours ago [-]
Acer aspire one with NetBSD
shrubble 2 hours ago [-]
It’s tough to find them on eBay; I wonder what the right search terms are?
stevefan1999 4 hours ago [-]
I still think it is very cursed to see that image of RMS using that laptop despite I was shocked to see it 12 years ago. Still shocks me to this day.
em-bee 4 hours ago [-]
what is shocking about it?
sellmesoap 3 hours ago [-]
I think because it's RMS champion of digital openess using using an archaine Chinese laptop, it's the dichotomy of China providing a product that's essentially more free (of binary blob firmware) then a western equivalent laptop. Take heed and dispare oh ye providers of win modems!
the keyboard and trackpad are internally PS/2.
Interesting that the PC influence is still there, although I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports. I remember having a similar moment of surprise when I played around with an ARM VM and discovered it had a "VGA-compatible" GPU emulating an old ISA-class chip.