OpenBSD on the HiFive Unmatched.

My desktop's power supply died, and rather than replace the ill-fated PSU I decided to go with something different. OpenBSD's new riscv64 port looked interesting, so I got a HiFive Unmatched to see how it would work as an OpenBSD desktop...

https://kernelpanic.life/hardware/hifive-unmatched.html

#desktop #system #hardware

Running OpenBSD 7.0 on your laptop is really hard (not).

Instructions on this page will provide a nice xfce4 based desktop. I'm using it on a Thinkpad X220 with a 480Gb SSD and 8Gb RAM. The example command results and links are still pointing to 6.8/6.9 at present. I'll update these in a week or two...

https://sohcahtoa.org.uk/openbsd.html

#desktop #system #xfce

Introduction to OpenBSD sound system.

#sound #desktop

OpenBSD Gaming Updates Q2 2022.

It's been a little quieter on the subreddit for a while, but that doesn't mean that nothing is happening in OpenBSD gaming! With the final touches being applied before the OpenBSD 7.1 release, this is as good a time as any to give a bit of an overview of recent developments and useful resources...

https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd_gaming/comments/u5tdzy/openbsd_gaming_updates_q2_2022/

#desktop #games #system

OpenBSD KDE Status Report 2022.

A lot has happened since the last OpenBSD KDE Status Report in 2021. Let’s split the report in four areas the good, the bad, the plasma and libinput...

https://www.sizeofvoid.org/posts/2022-26-12-openbsd-kde-status-report-2022/

#kde #desktop

OpenBSD KDE Plasma Desktop.

The KDE Plasma 5.27 is available on OpenBSD -current and will be part of the next release 7.5...

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2024-01-09-openbsd-kde/

#kde #desktop

OpenBSD Workstation for the People.

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...

https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/openbsd-workstation-for-the-people/

#desktop #system