VMware server 2 and OpenBSD guest running.

I can report that running VMware server 2 on a Debian system and a OpenBSD guest system does work. I had not updated for VMware 2 although its out for a while. I now did it by deinstalling the old Server Version 1 and then installing from tarball to /usr/local/*.

In need of a major new GNOME panel

I suggest that people start working on an alternative GNOME panel now. I have seen some suggestions on a GNOME wiki page, but I think most directions are very wrong. Like what you see here:

Essentially these are imitations of the fancy Mac panel. But I think that the Max panel does [...]

And X11/Xorg with OpenBSD

On my last post about installing OpenBSD on my R52 notebook I forgot to say that the X11 really ran out of the box without any configuration at all.

Using WPA on OpenBSD

The missing WPA support was something many users where missing on OpenBSD. I now tell some practical steps on how to connect to a WPA encrypted wireless network with OpenBSD. Again – and as often OpenBSD makes it simpler than other OSes. Firstly – during install OpenBSD gives the opportunity to configure networks. I had [...]

OpenBSD also on Notebook as Dual Boot

I had left some part of the hard disk free to try installing OpenBSD on my IBM Thinkpad R52 later. The later is now. I had some respect for trying the dual boot as last time I tried it was a mess. I now have working OpenBSD on sixth partition. That means if you read [...]

Remove files with “-” (options)

I realized that I never read the man page till the end. Thanks to the guys of bytemine at Kieler Linuxtage for answering the question on how to remove files like “-a” which could be interpreted as an option. You just add “–” between the command and the filename.
man rm(1) on Ubuntu also gives another [...]

SFD and 25 years GNU @ KDE & GNOME

GNU software exists since 25 years. Also there was the 4th Software Freedom Day at Sept. 20th. And what did we see at www.gnome.org and www.kde.org ? Not a word! This is very unfortunate. Its not that there aren’t people who say that this should or could have been mentioned – I think what it [...]

Fixing Thunderbird after updating

Today I has some XUL related problems with Thunderbird on OpenBSD. It would not let me write new mails and said OpenPGP would not work. The solution was to remove the file “XUL.mfasl” from the Thunderbird user directory. Just thought I should share that solution.

Flashcard reader on OpenBSD

I had bought a flashcard reader from HAMA USB 2.0 Card Reader 1000 & 1, where I did not find a good hint how to use in OpenBSD. Because GNOME on OpenBSD is not mounting automatically on insertion. But then yesterday I did a search on “difital camera openbsd” and found a link to “Digital [...]

Enabling epiphany as default browser in OpenBSD

I had the experience that on GNOME on OpenBSD strangely Firefox is started as default. This shoudl not be the case as Epiphany is the default. One way to set it is when you start “gconf-.editor” and browse to the section where you might alos find firefox:

and change it right away to “epiphany %s”. This [...]