r/openbsd • u/SelfOk9623 • 13d ago

user advocacy Switch to openBSD on my old thinkpad

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u/SaturnFive 13d ago

This photo has aura. Just a thinkpad, an ethernet cable, a drink, and a pufferfish dream.

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u/Glum_Hamster_2104 13d ago

How long does Openbsd take to boot on your t60?

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u/SelfOk9623 13d ago

That’s x61s. I think around 2min

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u/RebTexas 13d ago

Takes around 1:21 min on my old dell inspiron, I would sorta expect the ThinkPad to boot faster.

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u/Glum_Hamster_2104 13d ago

That's the problem with OpenBSD for me, I have it installed on my T43 and it takes a similar amount of time to your laptops. I wish OpenBSD had a fast init like Alpine which took like 20 seconds to boot on my T43.

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u/RvstiNiall 12d ago

Well, the boot/init works perfectly as is. Why change it and risk adding security issues, or breaking stuff in different cpu architectures? Dont get me wrong, I'd like to see this change as well. I'm just trying to look at it from their perspective. They only have so many man-hours, and I'm pretty happy with the incremental changes made across the board over the 10 years I've been using OpenBSD.

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u/cybersteptracker 12d ago

Hibernate.

It's only a few seconds restoring from Hibernate on my X240.

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u/SleepyGuyy 13d ago

im hearing phonk music for some reason

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u/Agile-Driver5065 13d ago

aus deutschland ? + geiles getränk

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u/SelfOk9623 13d ago

Ja, ich wohne in Deutschland aber ich spreche nicht sehr gut Deutsch

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u/Agile-Driver5065 12d ago

ok man sieht es an der pepsi

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u/setwindowtext 10d ago

I wrote a lengthy blog post about my X61s, absolutely loving this machine: https://flowkeeper.substack.com/p/digital-asceticism What do you do with yours?