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Another boring #OpenBSD upgrade from 7.6→7.7
# sysupgrade
[automatic reboot into upgrade, enter FDE password]
[automatic reboot into OS, enter FDE password]
# syspatch
# reboot
[reboots into rebuilt kernel, enter FDE password]
# sysmerge
[a few mundane /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/login.conf]
# pkg_add -u
[upgrades packages]
# rcctl restart dovecot # due to pkg upgrade
and done. Took all of ~10 minutes including downloading.
Go Mono from there rather than installing it from the #OpenBSD repo. Adding this to my .Xresources and voila I have the Go Mono font and symbols.xterm*faceName: Go Mono Nerd Font Mono#RunBSD
xterm*renderFont: true
xterm*faceSize: 10
People working on Linux or the BSDs (or illumos based OSes, etc), are you using two monitors? And, if so, what do you use them for?
I'm trying to understand if it makes sense to keep two monitors on my desk
Please boost
#Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #IT #SysAdmin
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| Two Monitors: | 228 |
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#OpenBSD #RunBSD
sixel in xterm or the kitty protocol in kitty, I've decided to stick with good old #Xterm . Also on my #FreeBSD daily driver I'm used to such luxuries as icons in the terminal like font awesome or nerd fonts but even though I could have used alacritty or kitty to achieve this I have decided to for go them. After all what do they do other make it look pretty ? I don't get any other functionality from them and they can easily be replaced with text. You might have noticed too that although I'm a #Wayland chic on my #ThinkPad I've decided to be all nostalgic and stick with Xorg on OpenBSD. I haven't yet settled on a window manager be it tiling or stacking but #HerbstluftWM and #Openbox are in my sights although I'm still using the default #Fvwm right now. I have my Qutebrowser setup and aerc for my email. Printing via cups and xsane for scanning. Looking into nsxiv for an image viewer as the OpenBSD port of imv is well out of date. Yes I'm having to make small changes but once I'm finished this wee Dell Optiplex 3080 tower will be perfect for daily driving OpenBSD and I'm looking forward to learning lots more. #RunBSD
Call for testing: em(4) TX interrupt mitigation https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250519170541 #openbsd #networking #devicesupport #interruptmitigation #fasterpackets #lowpower #hardware #hardwaresupport
Do you have an interesting project on a BSD and want to present?
EuroBSDCon 2025, Zagreb, September 2025 - Call for Talk and Presentation proposals is open
Feel free to submit at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/
Please also visit the main website https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/ for information about the conference.
See you in Zagreb!
#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon
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Epson Inkjet ET-4700 series driver only to find that none of the ET models were listed. So I just did a quick ls /usr/local/share/ppd/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/ and there was the required ET-4700 ppd file. So I selected it using the from file option and now it all works. #RunBSDI'd like it to have
sixel and or kitty graphics support.Also it would be nice to support
font awesome fonts in the terminal.I can get graphics support and
font awesome icon support using kitty but it's not the latest version, it's about 2 years old for various reasons.xterm has sixel support which for reasons OpenBSD see as a security issue and so it's disabled. It also does not support font awesome icons.Yes
alacritty exists and supports font awesome icons but it does not support images in the terminal.So it seems I'll have to compromise. #RunBSD
Register now for BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/index.html and get the Saturday reception for free! (until 2025-05-19)
Schedule https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/timetable/?layout=room#20250613.detailed #bsdcan #bsd #unix #unixlike #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #conference #development #devops #sysadmin #libresoftware #freesoftware
neovim setup as per my working #FreeBSD laptop but I cannot get the font awesome icons to display even though they are installed. I checked fc-list and they are there. Tried nerd fonts too.What am I missing here that
xterm will not display those icons as well as my default font Go Mono ??xsane and sane-airscan on my #OpenBSD desktop. I had to install avahi and enable it and dbus as per the instruction in the ports README. So just the printer driver to figure out as building it myself failed. Think I'll come back to that at some point unless someone adds the escpr2 driver to the OpenBSD ports. :DI can now print thanks to this reddit post
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/18bro15/epson_printing/
The driver was never listed in the drop down even though the printer was found. Doing a quick check of the PPD directory showed me that the ET-4700 driver was there. So I just used the select file from location option and voilà it worked !
Hmm it seems that my Epson ET-4750 is not supported on #OpenBSD with the following drivers epson-inkjet-printer-escpr . My printer actually needs the Epson Inkjet Printer Driver 2 which no one has packaged yet. Any OpenBSD maintainers able to add this at all ??? I know it's a long shot. ;)
#RunBSD
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I like that quote, and I've heard it many times, but I don't actually buy it. The hating Microsoft part, I mean.
It might have been true among Linux users when that was first spoken, but I don't think it's true anymore, nor do I think Torvalds was ever motivated by a hatred of Microsoft or their methods.
Linus is a pragmatist, to a fault (or at least seems to be one to me). It was always about the code to him.
But the loving #Unix part, I agree with, and I staunchly maintain that Unix matters and is very much not dead.
And the fact that neither Unix (nor #BSD, for that matter) means much of anything to most Linux people (I'm talking about the people who are driving change in the Linux ecosystem) is a huge tragedy, to me.
The trajectory to re-make Linux into its own type of MacOS is very obvious to see, and not wholly unjustified. But it's the wrong emphasis, in my mind.
Just as #OpenBSD's single-minded emphasis on code quality and "correctness" (to the point that features that some rely on, like Bluetooth support and softdeps, are removed for the sake of code clarity) isn't a good fit for every user's needs, the corporate desire to make Linux a great data center OS or a great corporate workstation OS isn't the right approach for everyone, and the fact that those seem to be nearly the *only* motivating factor is really unfortunate, and dare I say, wrong-headed.
This has been an issue of culture in the Linux community [[for a long time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas#Linux)], now.
“Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.”– Theo de Raadt
.Xresources but I can't find out if it matters whether a line has capitals or all lowercase. For example:XTerm*faceSize: 10
is this just the same does it not matter ?
xterm*faceSize: 10
Sorry but if it does not matter, if I start XTerm or xterm then that's good as having both just now plays on my OCD. :D
~/.profile :export TERM=wsvt25
You might have to logout or reboot for it to work though.
colorls aliased to ls which works great. My issue is I have just installed btop and when run it looks garbage all text hardly readable. Am I missing some font or configuration as it works in the tty on my FreeBSD laptop ?
With #bsdcan now less than a month away https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/index.html we invite your questions and input on the upcoming PF tutorials, see
"For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/pf_tutorial_upcoming_questions_welcome.html
#EuroBSDCon #OpenBSD #PF #tutorial, #packetfilter #Ottawa #BookofPF #BSDCan #conferences #networking #security
Was looking for some "Powered by OpenBSD" PC stickers and the only one I like is on Amazon and can't be shipped to the UK for some reason. Do I know anyone that can get a hold of a few of these and ship them to me price depending obviously ?
Please boost for a greater reach.
#OpenBSD #RunBSD
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A PC sticker with the OpenBSD puffy logo and the text below "Powered by OpenBSD"
For all its missing features, it's dead easy to get a decent GUI up and running with #OpenBSD.
#FreeBSD has a lot of capabilities, but takes some work to get going.
NomadBSD is elegant, and works well, but you only get a choice of a single desktop (IIRC), and kind of like Arch Linux derivatives, if something happens and you're left with a non-functioning system, you're a bit at a loss for what to do, because someone else essentially set it up for you.
Looking at the ports I see there are some WM's for Wayland on there like Sway, Labwc, Plasma and Wayfire. So I could try both Sway and Labwc but as for a bar I'm not sure ? Maybe any #OpenBSD folks that have or are using Wayland could chime in ? I wonder what if I could build from source bar wise that would work for Wayland ?
Hmmm lots of questions and here's another. Why do I keep looking at OpenBSD docs, reading users blogs and watching videos ?
I need help ! :D
Exactly one month from today, I'll be at #BSDCan to present my talk "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" (AKA: "I solve problems").
As the days go by, I feel increasingly honored to be a speaker at this event, more and more excited to live an experience similar to the incredible one I had last September at #EuroBSDCon in Dublin, and more confident than ever in the technical choices I’ve made over the years - which I’ll be happy to share.
BSD conferences aren’t just technical events - they’re snapshots of the BSD community as a whole: friendly, collaborative, pragmatic, and positive.
To everyone attending: see you in Ottawa!
https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/123/
#BSDCan2025 #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD
Exactly one month from today, I'll be at #BSDCan to present my talk "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" (AKA: "I solve problems").
As the days go by, I feel increasingly honored to be a speaker at this event, more and more excited to live an experience similar to the incredible one I had last September at #EuroBSDCon in Dublin, and more confident than ever in the technical choices I’ve made over the years - which I’ll be happy to share.
BSD conferences aren’t just technical events - they’re snapshots of the BSD community as a whole: friendly, collaborative, pragmatic, and positive.
To everyone attending: see you in Ottawa!
#BSDCan2025 #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD
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#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #9front #linux #comic #ksh
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Puffy is going on a trip, leaving behind Girl and Penguin. He addresses them as he's getting dressed.
Puffy: "I'll be back in a few days. You know what to do?"
Girl, holding The NEW Kornshell book: "Page 156!"
Puffy, to Penguin: "And you?"
Penguin, annoyed: "Nobody touches your nethack save..."
Puffy leaves.
Girl to Penguin: "Get the 9front iso."
Penguin gulps.
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Puffy traverses the desert at night, reaching a memorial stone.
It reads: "In honor of the fish who gave their lives for freedom"
Dozens of fish emblems follow.
Heads up #Linux, #OpenBSD and #FLOSS #devs and enjoyers if you want to hang out with other like-minded folks here is a #DeltaChat group for you:
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Incident report
Last Saturday, Exquisite.social was down for multiple hours. In this post I'd like to share what happened and the lessons learned.
As you might know, this Mastodon instance runs on #OpenBSD - which is a very stable and sane platform. Ever since the inception, late 2022, we've ran with -current, as Mastodon did have some dependencies which were initially unavailable on -stable.
While -current is the "bleeding edge" variant; it is in fact super stable and reliable. There is one big downside from the maintenance perspective: keeping it updated is a bit more involved and requires either a snapshot (plus packages) update or manual patching.
We've ran with the former option for years - upgrading the snapshot and packages on a monthly basis. Incidentally, we'd upgrade it twice in one month due to security patches. Keeping our community secure is of vital importance 
I had been plotting to switch from -current to -stable once OpenBSD 7.7 was released. Not only would this ease the management, it would also help with writing the documentation for others to selfhost Mastodon on OpenBSD.
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In the end, Exquisite.social was down for seven hours, from 13:30 to 20:30. I owe our members a sincere apology for that. So, incredibly sorry 
And thank you for bearing with us - and a heartfelt gratitude to those whom reached out through different channels with supportive messages. You know whom you are!
With the migration done:
- We are now using #OpenBSD
-stableand are good for the many upcoming years of this lovely community, - We don't need to do the monthly dance of snapshot upgrades and the reboots (downtime) from that,
- It did allow me to get rid of the double disk encryption, which was there from the early days - so reboots can be planned and unattended. We now have single disk encryption, at the host. The hypervisor, #HardenedBSD with Bhyve, runs with encrypted pools.
The irony is not lost on me - by causing this downtime, we'd have way less downtime in the future 
Again, terribly sorry for this downtime and the inconvenience. And thank you for being a part of Exquisite
h3artbl33d out.
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Well I couldn't get Xorg to display correctly on my Dell Optiplex 3080, its screen was broken up but you could make things out ish. Anyway I stumbled upon @joel@piou.foolbazar.eu blog titled "OpenBSD Workstation for the People" and found this section.
https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/openbsd-workstation-for-the-people/#graphics-acceleration
Now my GPU is an Intel Comet Lake-S GT2 ( UHD 630 ) and I'm thinking that by installing the package intel-media-driver both xorg and Wayland window managers would have worked correctly. So what to do ? Is what I've discovered correct ? If so do I give #OpenBSD another shot if the above is the reason that the xorg display was corrupted as it all works fine under #FreeBSD ? 🤔 #RunBSD
#unix_surrealism #openbsd #linux #art
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An unimportant remnant of the past has been removed from open SSH;
DSA.
Read about it in this article the next article linked will show you that it has been removed finally
#SSH #openSSH #DSA #programming #coding #OpenSource #openBSD #BSD #secureShell #Infosec
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240111105900
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The image shows a screenshot of a webpage from the OpenBSD Journal. The top of the page features a black background with a logo on the left, depicting a cartoonish sun with guns, and the text "OpenBSD Journal" in light blue. Below the logo, navigation links are visible: Home, Archives, About, Submit, Story, Create Account, and Login.
The main content of the page is a news article titled "DSA removal from OpenSSH" in large, light blue text. The article was contributed by "rueda" on January 11, 2024, from the "going-dept." The article states that the OpenSSH project has announced the timeline for the removal of DSA support from OpenSSH. It mentions that OpenSSH plans to remove support for DSA, as specified in the SSHv2 protocol, which is limited to a 160-bit private key with an estimated security level of less than or equal to 80 bits. The article also notes that OpenSSH has disabled DSA keys by default and that DSA is optional support for them.
The bottom of the page shows the URL "undeady.org/cgi?act" and a navigation bar with three vertical lines, a home icon, a back arrow, and a menu icon. The battery icon in the top right corner indicates 82% battery life, and the time is 03:31.
Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energy used: 0.353 Wh
LLDP daemon and tool committed to -current https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250507045746 #openbsd #lldp #lldpd #networking
You should know: #OpenBSD 7.7 now has its first security patch for an NFS issue:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata77.html#p001_nfs
001: SECURITY FIX: May 5, 2025 All architectures
Kernel of NFS server could crash if nfsd(8) is enabled and an evil NFS request is sent to it.
ssh: listener sockets relocated from /tmp to ~/.ssh/agent https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250506044643 #openbsd #ssh #openssh #security #unveil #sshagent #snoopresistant #freesoftware #libresoftware
Yesterday, I told you about incus - today I tell you how you can easily run #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD & #NetBSD with #incus!
#RUNBSD! #opensource #homelab #virtualization #proxmox
https://gyptazy.com/run-freebsd-openbsd-netbsd-vms-in-incus/
I donated some $ to game of trees. If you like the OpenBSD git alternative...then you can donate to gothub: https://opencollective.com/gothub #openbsd #got #gameOfTrees
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Great article from @gyptazy :
Run FreeBSD, OpenBSD & NetBSD VMs in Incus
https://gyptazy.com/run-freebsd-openbsd-netbsd-vms-in-incus/?utm_source=discoverbsd
I've been reading an interesting article by Liguo Yu et. al., "Maintainability of the kernels of open-source operating systems: A comparison of Linux with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD" (DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2005.08.014). Keep in mind, the article is from 2005 (published in 2006), so it would be interesting to know how things have changed since then. We are talking here about #Linux 2,4,20, #FreeBSD 5.1, #NetBSD 1.6 and #OpenBSD 3.3.
The article basically explores maintainability of said OSes judging mainly by usage of global variables.
Here's some interesting takeouts.
"Unsafe definition" is in their terms a usage of global variables between kernel modules and non-kernel modules.
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Two graphs showing number of global variables and unsafe definitions in Linux and three BSDs. Linux has significantly more of both.
#FreeBSD - I had to use 15-CURRENT as the video card isn't supported. Even in 15-CURRENT, trackpad doesn't seem to be working and the video performance is poor. I'll have to investigate.
#OpenBSD - better video performance, the wifi card is recognised but it seems to have some performance issues (packets lost, etc). Trackpad is not working
#NetBSD - video card is not supported, trackpad isn't working
I'll test the whole system with a Fedora, just to be sure that the hardware is ok (but a small test, yesterday, was successful).
What if I told you there’s an OS that’s ultra-secure, actively developed — but without much noise? What if I add that Windows, Mac & Android are all using parts of this Operating System?
OpenBSD boots and works - but it seems the trackpad isn't moving. I'm sure I can fix it as it's correctly detecting it, but I'm now testing FreeBSD.
It immediately throws a kernel panic, but this seems to the the problem:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=274014
So, 15-CURRENT boots and works. I'll probably burn a 14-STABLE usb pen and continue with that.
Let me introduce you to aceBSD! Yesterday, while I was out grocery shopping, I saw a special offer on a final unit, and I had already been thinking for a while about getting a mid-range laptop to take with me to conferences, on trips, etc. Something small, practical, with an HDMI port, and capable of running at least one of the BSDs decently. After some careful thought, I decided to go for it today.
It's an Acer Swift Go 14 - with an Intel i5, 16 GB of RAM, and a 512 GB NVMe SSD. What I really like is that it’s compact and has a high-definition OLED screen, a good keyboard, and for the rest... we’ll see. I just used Clonezilla to make a backup of the preinstalled Windows (I didn’t even boot into it...) and I’m now installing OpenBSD. I had to disable VMD (from a hidden BIOS menu) because otherwise the installer wouldn’t detect the NVMe. It also seems to detect the Wi-Fi, but I’m proceeding with a USB-C Ethernet adapter just to be safe.
I got it at a good price, so this could be the ideal solution. Fingers crossed, and… we’ll see!
I'll keep posting about this adventure, with the hashtag #aceBSD
#RunBSD #OpenBSD #aceBSD #NewLaptop
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A smiling man in a light blue shirt stands indoors holding a cardboard box with the Acer logo, indicating it contains a new laptop from the Acer Swift Series. He is posing happily in front of a wooden door with decorative glass panels.
Ooh, new #OpenBSD release!
What's your DESKTOP #bsd preference? I'm ignoring netbsd as I have yet to meet someone who uses it as their primary os (but I'd love to meet!)
I'm asking because "I moved from Open to Free due to Nvidia, but Open was still great",
| run: freebsd, prefer: freebsd: | 5 |
| run: freebsd, prefer: openbsd: | 1 |
| run: openbsd, prefer: openbsd: | 2 |
| run: openbsd, prefer: freebsd: | 0 |
Hey #BSD friends!
Is there a way to set up oauth2 on Dovecot for authentication? (All local Auth, no Google or Microsoft involved). Do I have to run some big chunky java blob like keycloak or is there a much lighter weight implementation C somewhere?
BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks & BOFs June 13-14, 2025
Registration is open - https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
Also see https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for descriptions and tips, contributions: https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/
#bsdcan #conference #bsd #unix #development #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #sysadmin #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware
Call for Testing: Parallel fault handler https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250430184440 #openbsd #faulthandler #multicore #development #kernel #freesoftware #libresoftware
A new OpenBSD release was released!
And.. Dave and Mike rock! \m/ \m/
22 new VMs were added and 48 VMs were renewed.
We donated €940 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €51905 since we started.
Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!
Stay sane & healthy!
#RUNBSD in 2025
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Stand back
We're trying this in production
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colorls and alias it to ls so I could get color output in the terminal when typing ls. But I then found that in the normal tty before I started X11 that I even though that alias was present it did not give me color output. After digging through the www I found a suggestion to put the following line in my .profile :export TERM=wsvt25Rebooted to be sure and voila I get a color listing in both the tty and a #kitty terminal under #X11 .
I'm sure that I'll learn heaps more as I plod along but it is good. #RunBSD
Me: huh, I don't remember logging out of my session on the kids' #OpenBSD laptop…oh, right, I did a `doas sysupgrade`, it did the upgrade, rebooted into 7.7, and returned uneventfully to the login screen without requiring any additional intervention or thought.
There's something wonderful about an upgrade-process so boring that you can accidentally forget you did it.
Don't tell me you still don't have a boxyBSD VM. Request one while they last
Here's the status of the hypervisors running boxyBSD VMs
.🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX
![The screencap shows a terminal screen with a black background and white text. At the top, there is a status bar displaying the time (22:12), battery level (81%), and temperature (27°). The terminal window is titled "BoxyBSD" in a stylized font. The command line shows the user "guest" logged in to the system "mgmt-boxybsd" with the command "cat status.md" being executed.
The terminal output includes a "Status" section listing hypervisors with their locations and latency times, such as "virt01: 42.1 ms (Location: France, Ro)" and "virt09: 277. ms (Location: Japan, Toky)." Below this, there is a "[looking glass]" section with miscellaneous information like "Website: Online," "Matrix Bot: Online," "Provisioning: Enabled," and "gyptazy services: Online." The "Statistics" section shows "Boxes provisioned: 500+," "OS Images: 7," and "Uptime: 99.9%." At the bottom, there is a note about contacting support and the system's creation date (2025-04-12 11:59:34.695945).
Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energy used: 0.310 Wh](https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/114/418/607/438/600/920/original/cd9458171bb3c031.jpg "The screencap shows a terminal screen with a black background and white text. At the top, there is a status bar displaying the time (22:12), battery level (81%), and temperature (27°). The terminal window is titled \"BoxyBSD\" in a stylized font. The command line shows the user \"guest\" logged in to the system \"mgmt-boxybsd\" with the command \"cat status.md\" being executed.
The terminal output includes a \"Status\" section listing hypervisors with their locations and latency times, such as \"virt01: 42.1 ms (Location: France, Ro)\" and \"virt09: 277. ms (Location: Japan, Toky).\" Below this, there is a \"[looking glass]\" section with miscellaneous information like \"Website: Online,\" \"Matrix Bot: Online,\" \"Provisioning: Enabled,\" and \"gyptazy services: Online.\" The \"Statistics\" section shows \"Boxes provisioned: 500+,\" \"OS Images: 7,\" and \"Uptime: 99.9%.\" At the bottom, there is a note about contacting support and the system's creation date (2025-04-12 11:59:34.695945).
Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energy used: 0.310 Wh")
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The screencap shows a terminal screen with a black background and white text. At the top, there is a status bar displaying the time (22:12), battery level (81%), and temperature (27°). The terminal window is titled "BoxyBSD" in a stylized font. The command line shows the user "guest" logged in to the system "mgmt-boxybsd" with the command "cat status.md" being executed.
The terminal output includes a "Status" section listing hypervisors with their locations and latency times, such as "virt01: 42.1 ms (Location: France, Ro)" and "virt09: 277. ms (Location: Japan, Toky)." Below this, there is a "[looking glass]" section with miscellaneous information like "Website: Online," "Matrix Bot: Online," "Provisioning: Enabled," and "gyptazy services: Online." The "Statistics" section shows "Boxes provisioned: 500+," "OS Images: 7," and "Uptime: 99.9%." At the bottom, there is a note about contacting support and the system's creation date (2025-04-12 11:59:34.695945).
Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energy used: 0.310 Wh
Upgraded my VPS to #OpenBSD 7.7 during my lunch hour.. It only took 10 minutes and it was super smooth.
Congratulations to the OpenBSD team for the new release!
About 10 #OpenBSD instances upgraded. So far, so good. But awful truth must be revealed: two of those went not that smooth.
A VPS at our beloved NL provider went Bam in the middle of the upgrade. After forcing booting bsd.rd from the host, the upgrade could be process and not data were lost.
Second woops was my ThinkPad A485 (AMD Ryzen) which lost touchpad usage. Although it was working with 7.7-beta. A reboot to Mint live and reboot to OpenBSD solved the problem.
There are days like this.
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OpenBSD 7.7 is here https://www.openbsd.org/77.html
The new #OpenBSD 7.7 https://www.openbsd.org/77.html release is out, now go install the thing!
Then you can prepare for the daily tasks by reading "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html, and watch for updates over on the OpenBSD Journal https://undeadly.org
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The impending release of #OpenBSD 7.7 looks really really good! Lots of SMP and networking improvements!
These two items caught my eye:
1. Removed the ability to specify a root, dump or swap device on st(4).
2. Fixed a 24-year old bug where various checks for broadcast packets were mistakenly skipped, allowing one to send broadcast packets without the SO_BROADCAST option.
Who would try sticking their root disk on st(4)?!? 😂
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Yes, upgrading #OpenBSD 7.6 to 7.7 is luxuriously automated.
The longest thing is probably running "pkg_add -u -vv" and editing "/etc/motd" to put the correct version in there with "banner OpenBSD 7.7".
Now, back to the question I had a couple of weeks ago: should I buy a Framework Laptop 12 to test OpenBSD on it? 🤔
OpenBSD 7.7 released with AMD SEV support in QEMU, SMP improvements, updated DRM based on Linux Kernel 6.12.21, kernel support for Ryzen AI 300, Radeon RX 9070 and Intel ArrowLake, new Intel E810 ethernet devices driver, support for MA devices, installer and bootloader improvements
https://www.openbsd.org/77.html
#openbsd #openbsd77 #bsd #amdsev #amdryzen #qemu #opensource #freesoftware
Upgrading my VPS to #openbsd 7.7 went without a hitch (as expected!)
Such a wonderful operating system :)
Alt...
Screenshot of neofetch showing the details of OpenBSD running on a VPS.
Exhibit number one: upgrading my #OpenBSD VMs to version 7.7:
$ doas sysupgrade
And all that is left is the download. Give me a few dozens of minutes...
Start your upgrade engines!
The 58th release of #OpenBSD 7.7 is released! 🐡
https://www.openbsd.org/77.html
We will start the upgrade process soon!
The full announcement can be found at: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=174577743904716&w=2
Alt...
OpenBSD 7.7 release poster titled "LIfe Of A Fish"
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250427183032
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| Nah I switched to Wayland and I'm staying put.: | 35 |
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Charming story of struggle and finding peace in #FVWM If you like those old Linux vibes.
I myself once spent a week struggling with FVWM on #OpenBSD . But OpenBSD, alas, has very old version in base, circa 2002 due to licensing reasons. So I couldn't do many things I wanted to do.
FVWM feels extremely strange and simply crazy when you delve into config files. But then configuration syntax starts to make sense and you feel you can do just about anything with it. I couldn't, though. =(
https://homeforaday.org/fvwm/
This issue mentions that there's a total of two terminal emulators in #OpenBSD that support #sixel, but doesn't say what they are. XD
I couldn't get it to work in Alacritty (my default term for X11), either.
See this site for possible terminals to try: https://www.arewesixelyet.com/
Also, I have a somewhat crude script for estimating package sizes on #OpenBSD without installing.
It is not compiled with graphics features like Sixel (at least since 2013) or Tektronix emulation. At least Sixel has had security issues in the past and would have likely hindered the pledge(2)/unveil(2) support that was added (xterm on OpenBSD uses both).
@BoxyBSD was always for BSD based systems only. I focussed to push the whole BSD community and to encourage people to try BSD based systems (such like #FreeBSD. #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, etc.) but I'm not sure if it might provide more value to the whole #opensource community by also supporting #Linux systems (such like #Debian, #Ubuntu, #RockyLinux, #SuSe and more).
I'm not sure if the #BoxyBSD project still provides a value for the community right, now.
What do you think?
.Xresources and merged but still using img2sixel displays no image in the terminal.As it approaches, the excitement for the upcoming #BSDCan keeps growing. It'll be my first time in Canada, and therefore my first time at BSDCan, and it will be a great opportunity to meet people I couldn't meet at #EuroBSDCon in Dublin. In the meantime, the next EuroBSDCon is also getting closer. All in all, when I look at the coming months, I feel an overwhelming sense of positivity and enthusiasm!
Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425082010 #openbsd #lldp #linklayer #networking #libresoftware #freesoftware
Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425074505 #openbsd #bpflogd #bpf #networking #logging #development #sysadmin #devops #security #platformengineering