I run OpenBSD (dual boot with Linux) on an X250, which I bought in January with the price about 50 percent discounted, because it is being replaced with X260. There is also a rather helpful blogpost from 2016 on setting it up on this model:
https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2016/01/15/openbsd-on-the-thinkpad-x250/ Regards, Karl Pettersson On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 08:19:32AM +0000, Florian Obser wrote: > I need some help since I'm terrible with hardware... > > So my x201 main hacking laptop is getting old and benno@ is always > mocking me for the amount of gaffer and stickers that are holding it > together. > > Long story short, I'm in the market for a new thinkpad. > Yes it has to be a thinkpad. I require the pointing stick and 3 > physical mouse buttons. > > On the x201 I like the ease of changing the HDD and battery. I would > prefer if that was the case with the new one. > > So what's the done thing here? I'm not a hardware hacker, so I want a > kinda fully supported one. That means accelerated X and working wifi > (this is probably not an issue with stsp@'s hard work). Also I'm happy > with the size of the x201, I don't want to lug a brick around, so that > means an x series laptop. As a first approximation assume that money is > not an issue. > > Thanks, > Florian > > -- > I'm not entirely sure you are real.
