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Old 3rd December 2008
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Default Dell Insprion 1525

Anybody have any experiences with OBSD 4.4 and Dell's Inspiron 1525 laptop?

Also, what is a decent virtualization package (if any)? Does Virtualbox run under OBSD?

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VirtualBox runs on OpenSolaris/Mac OS X/Linux, on OpenBSD you will have to use QEMU.
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I know that laptop should work under Ubuntu GNU/Linux (needs stuff from Dell to use the webcam); but I don't know anyone with it under *BSD.
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Last month somebody posted a dmesg of a 4.4 LiveCD called "MarBSD" as attachment in a German BSD forum message.
See http://www.bsdforen.de/showpost.php?...76&postcount=4

The attached file (Angehängte Dateien) is "dmesg.txt"
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@TerryP - I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 on it now. Wanted to run OBSD if the hardware worked.

@J65nko - I will check out that link.

@Vermaden - I was hoping that I'd be able to run OBSD on the lappy; with perhaps linux as a guest (for fancy features that OBSD doesn't support....like flash).

Thanks everyone for the responses. I have a new toy; just looking to play around.

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@Vermaden - I was hoping that I'd be able to run OBSD on the lappy; with perhaps linux as a guest (for fancy features that OBSD doesn't support....like flash).
There is no WINE for OpenBSD?
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There is no WINE for OpenBSD?
Hmm, sounds vaguely familiar....j/k. So, OBSD + WINE + Win32 Firefox + Adobe Flash Player 9 (Win32) = OBSD happiness?

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There is no WINE for OpenBSD?
No there is not.. the version in tree is an early 1999 snapshot release, it's broken.
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This is OPENBSD being mentioned, for korns sake!

There is some capability for linux binaries, but I doubt you'll find anything suitable in regards to flash. Maybe if the developers got drunk on more wine then there is proverbial tea in china, it would change, but I don't see that happening soon.
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Flash is discussed in OpenBSD FAQ 13, but in brief:

  • OpenBSD/i386 may use the Opera browser and it's Flash 7 plugin.
  • All OpenBSD platforms may use gnash, which also has a Mozilla plugin.

If you need to see Flash 9 or Flash 10 content at a website, you'll need to use another OS.
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