1vuio0pswjnm7 10 minutes ago
"However, I can find no evidence that Richard Stallman had/has a dog, or indeed any pet."

According to his own disclosures, he has a fear of dogs

https://web.archive.org/web/20120119135147if_/https://secure...

bentley 6 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 6 hours ago
(author) Is there a way to specifically build the framebuffer version from the ports tree? I didn't see one.
bentley 6 hours ago
/usr/ports/www/netsurf/netsurf-fb/
classichasclass 5 hours ago
Thanks, I'll try that.
anthk 5 hours ago
Mainline Dillo runs faster and smoother, it's just an fltk + git clone && configure +make install away.
userbinator 4 hours 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.

justin66 3 hours ago
A decade’s worth of SGI machines combined MIPS processors with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports.
classichasclass 3 hours ago
(author) My understanding is that they're wired into the AMD southbridge which provides them over memory mapped I/O.
JdeBP 7 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 7 hours ago
No computer is obsolete with a BSD. I still use an n270 netbook daily.
Narishma 3 hours ago
Same here. I have a Samsung NC10 netbook with that same CPU which I recently converted from Debian to NetBSD when they dropped 32-bit support.
iberator 5 hours ago
Acer aspire one with NetBSD
shrubble 6 hours ago
It’s tough to find them on eBay; I wonder what the right search terms are?
mattst88 3 hours ago
I think they're super uncommon in the west.

I think they're also super useless, to be honest. Incredibly slow. Linux support continued to degrade the entire time I owned mine. The keyboard and display are far too small to be usable. The graphics chip accelerates basically nothing.

I sold mine [1] on eBay back in October. I hope the new owner enjoys it more than I did :)

[1] https://mattst88.com/computers/yeeloong/

stevefan1999 8 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 8 hours ago
what is shocking about it?
sellmesoap 6 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!