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2020-09-20
I have a roughly ten year old Brother HL-5370DW printer on the shelf next to me. This printer is mostly used by my wife to print sewing patterns. When I was studying computer science, I sometimes printed documents I’ve written for proofreading. I often was able to find typos that I didn’t see on the screen even after proofreading the document two or three times. However, I didn’t bother to print out my bachelor thesis.
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2020-09-12
A week ago, I’ve installed OpenBSD on my Thinkpad. I’ve been using it now and then, and already have changed a couple of things in respect to the original setup described in the article. I also installed OpenBSD on the Dell Optiplex on which I previously installed FreeBSD a month before. This means that I’m no longer using FreeBSD on the desktop, at least not for the moment. However, FreeBSD is running on a disk station I built earlier this summer.
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2020-09-05
Let’s install OpenBSD on a Lenovo Thinkpad X270. I used this computer for my computer science studies. It has both Arch Linux and Windows 10 installed as dual boot. Now that I’m no longer required to run Windows, I can ditch the dual boot and install an operating system of my choice.
Preparation First, I grab my work Thinkpad running Arch Linux and some USB dongle big enough for the amd64 miniroot image (roughly five megabytes, that is).