A new old toys

In this week I’ve received two “new” older machines. One is Compaq, pIII 800MHz, which will be my new gateway instead of kashyyyk (http://morr.pl/olddies). It has already installed NetBSD, and this week I’ll try to exchange the router. I have installed NetBSD 4.0 to get the latest stable release of NetBSD. The second machine is rather little: Palm Tungsten T. I have got it from my friend. One of its features is Bluetooth, which I use to connect Palm to a computer and phone (e.

e17

Today I’ve installed e17 on NetBSD - development version of Enlightenment. It was result of toying with gOS - Ubuntu with e17. It looks very nice and it’s almost as fast as fluxbox. With some nice theme it can looks like this. Installing of e17 from pkgsrc is simple. You need to checkout wip (pkgsrc-wip) and do that: cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/e17 && make install clean Only thing which won’t work right now in NetBSD is screenlocking.

A new toy

I’ve got my second laptop. It’s Compal - Core2duo, 4GB of RAM and 250GB SATA disk, NVIDIA 8600GT. I’ll generally use it to work and develop things. Memory is needed to run a couple of virtual machines, and Core2duo VT bit will help too. Use of Broadcom 43xx wifi makes me use Linux on that machine. Apart from Broadcom and touchpad, this machine is nice. :-) UPDATE: In NetBSD-current there is bwi driver for Broadcom.