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Search results for tag #openbsd

ricardo »
@governa@fosstodon.org

𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪 »
@joel@gts.tumfatig.net

Someone was wondering about color emoji support in terminal using #OpenBSD. I never really checked before but on 7.8, it does work OOTB.

This is #Neomutt inside a #tmux session ran from #Xfce terminal. But it also works in plain #Xterm; since you have it render UTF-8 characters with DejaVu Sans for example.

A list of email items. 3 of them have colored emojis in their subject.

Alt...A list of email items. 3 of them have colored emojis in their subject.

R.L. Dane 🍵 »
@rl_dane@polymaths.social

Adam boosted

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

BSDCan 2026 is in June 17 - 20, 2026.

The submissions deadline is January 17, 2027. See the Call for Papers page bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html for instructions on how to submit.

Want to know more about BSD and the conferences? See nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd @bsdcan

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Strange! I have exactly the sane configs on both and yet FreeBSD displays the pages differently to OpenBSD. The zeros on webpages on OpenBSD have no internal marks yet FreeBSD zeros have a dot inside them. Fonts are different between the two. Also on FreeBSD I have to run qutebrowser with the nogpu option so it'll run under . I never noticed differences like this before on 14.3 but on 15.0 I'm not quite sure what's different yet ?

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Hyperthreading is disabled by default on but it can be enabled if you're really sure you need it.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#SMT

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

OK Not that I have anything against but I'm going to install 15.0 onto my again as I do miss ZFS and the extensive selection of apps too. Ok I miss full color emoji in the terminal too you got me. But I do still have OpenBSD running on my Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower so I can keep up with developments as I do still like what it is and what they stand for. I guess I'm just a girl and I like them all.

Jan »
@jan@mastodon.bsd.cafe

I've built something useable. Maybe you need that, too.

Clients with moonlight-qt
hypervisor with libegl and GPU
VMS with GPU in proxmox and sunshine streaming server

Now you can play your games running only on linux on OpenBSD. This also works good over the internet/VPN.
The actual intention was building remote desktop capable vms, because 3d Desktops (GNOME), high Display resolution, modern browsers and spice protocol dont give a smooth experience these days. This also works now.

is at 99% native performance. The GPU is shareable to many VMS.
Can't wait to see how amdgpu native driver context passthrough is coming out when it's available.

Parade du Grotesque 💀 »
@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org

@joel @dch @elena @yunohost

My kids, when they were younger, thought my work had something to do with spiky fishes, given the amount of swag I keep around.

So I was the computer guy who worked with spiky fishes. Explain that to your teacher when you are 6 or 7...

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

🗳

Miod Vallat »
@miodvallat@hostux.social

For those of you interested in my stories, what kind of content would you prefer?

working with obscure (but rad) hardware:2
general kernel issues which matter for everyone:3
funny anecdotes:2
other (please comment):1

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Evergreen

FishLinux meme with 3 panes:

First pane: one person representing linux, the second representing OpenBSD, and a grandma. The grandma says "Hey it's-a the Linux bros!"

Second pane: OpenBSD person says: "Mama, why do you never remember my name"

Third pane: grandma says "I'm-a sorry, Fish Linux"

Alt...FishLinux meme with 3 panes: First pane: one person representing linux, the second representing OpenBSD, and a grandma. The grandma says "Hey it's-a the Linux bros!" Second pane: OpenBSD person says: "Mama, why do you never remember my name" Third pane: grandma says "I'm-a sorry, Fish Linux"

gyptazy »
@gyptazy@gyptazy.com

manpageblog v1.6 just got released. It is a static blog engine concept that treats written content like classic Unix man pages. It puts content first without sacrificing style and delivers a clean, elegant reading experience free from JavaScript, infinite scrolling, and other distracting clutter. The result is a fast, focused, and genuinely enjoyable way to consume high-quality content which can easily be served on very low power systems and follows the pure minimalism concept.

manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including , , or based ones like but also on like or .

Changelog v1.6:

  • Pagination support added
  • Sitemap support added
  • SEO optimized
  • LD+JSON support added
manpageblog was initially crafted by me to match the minimalism on FreeBSD and you can directly start with it from the ports:
https://www.freshports.org/www/manpageblog/

The project source is available on GitHub at:
https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog
You can find a real-life demo on my website at https://gyptazy.com


manpageblog - a UNIX man page themed static blog engine

Alt...manpageblog - a UNIX man page themed static blog engine

Miod Vallat »
@miodvallat@hostux.social

Time for your story!

I intended to publish it tomorrow, to keep a weekly schedule, but the proofreading team didn't raise too many issues, and it's ready for general consumption.

miod.online.fr/software/openbs

Ricardo Martín »
@ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

There will be a "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" at AsiaBSDCon in Taipei Thursday, March 19 2026.

Yours truly and Max Stucchi teaching networking goodness.

Details soon to emerge at 2026.asiabsdcon.org/ @stucchimax

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Fresh from the BSDCan program committee - submissions are coming in, but we can still take more!

If you have not made your submission, you have until Saturday, January 17th to get yours in!

Go to bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html to orient yourself, then submit via the submission link.

BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 17-18, 2026, talks June 19-20, 2026

@bsdcan

vermaden »
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟭/𝟬𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/01/05) available.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01

Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

ロベルトファルク ☕ »
@Streakmachine@mastodon.sdf.org

Legitimate question for all you lovely BSD-folks. Does anyone daily CDE nowadays?

Tionisla »
@Tionisla@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Seems KDE's new login/session manager which is supposed to replace sddm dropped FreeBSD support and will be systemd only.

I could rant about this being a typical techbro linux move (and about fedora, as far I can see in this case) or ask on the kde discuss what's the real deal, but I am tired of this, so tired...
It is sending exactly the wrong message to other OS ports and it's why I left the GNU/Linux world. Move fast, break things...

*sigh* Ok, I should start worrying about plasma6's general direction now and slowly looking for another DE here on FreeBSD. It's not worth the struggle.

invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-l

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

AI models don’t really 'get' the BSDs. As a result, they often provide incomplete, imprecise, or flat-out wrong answers by defaulting to Linux paradigms. When it comes to illumos-based systems, they just completely lose the plot.

This is becoming a serious issue for the BSDs and illumos ecosystems. We are seeing entire websites flooded with AI-generated tutorials and guides that are totally incorrect. Most people don't realize this; they follow the instructions, fail, and then assume that the BSDs doesn't work well or are 'unstable' because they have supposedly changed since the guide was written.

Luckily, some people eventually find my blog, reach out, and finally understand what's actually going on. Others, unfortunately, end up on major social sites or comments, claiming that these systems are broken.

In 2026, one of our greatest challenges will be teaching people how to vet their sources and filter information.
And I see this as a very, very uphill battle.

fosdembsd »
@fosdembsd@mastodon.bsd.cafe

The FreeBSD stand at will be in building H.
The table will be shared with our friends Foundation, , and .

dch boosted

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

The update you have been waiting for:

"Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?" nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_ye (tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eig)

now has the complete 2025 data in place.

gyptazy »
@gyptazy@gyptazy.com

Running your own Fediverse instance and want to become more visible?

You can simply use relay instances to be interconnected with other instances to exchange posts and it works seamless with , , / and many other ones! If you're in tech, you might want to use:

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

You can simply add it to get a bigger reach but also to get more interesting content into your own timeline which becomes even more important on single user- & smaller instances.


Activity Pub / Fediverse Relay

Alt...Activity Pub / Fediverse Relay

Miod Vallat »
@miodvallat@hostux.social

A very serious study from the Notfoundland University, in the departement of Comp. lately made this up-and-coming discovery that being exposed to PDP-11 assembler code will always make your day brighter and, overall, your life happier.

So why not peek at the PDP-11 code found in today's story?

miod.online.fr/software/openbs

Tomáš »
@prahou@merveilles.town

Plus One

Thank you, all the supporters, fans, visitors, critters, observers and machine-folk.

Good luck next year!

Girl, Fish and Penguin pose for a photograph.

Alt...Girl, Fish and Penguin pose for a photograph.

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Looking Back at 2025, Looking Forward to 2026

Pizzas, tiramisu, stickers, and plenty of coffee. But above all, people.

My 2025 has been a journey from Canada to Croatia, reconnecting with old friends and launching new projects. In a difficult year for the world, I chose to focus on the light emitted by positive figures, who are often the quiet ones.

I’ve written a farewell post for this incredible year on my personal blog. See you in 2026, with the same Smile(TM).

my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/31

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it

Looking Back at 2025, Looking Forward to 2026

Pizzas, tiramisu, stickers, and plenty of coffee. But above all, people.

My 2025 has been a journey from Canada to Croatia, reconnecting with old friends and launching new projects. In a difficult year for the world, I chose to focus on the light emitted by positive figures, who are often the quiet ones.

I’ve written a farewell post for this incredible year on my personal blog. See you in 2026, with the same Smile(TM).

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/31/looking-back-at-2025-looking-forward-to-2026/


Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Tomáš »
@prahou@merveilles.town

dirty dozen

the twelve apostles and japanese jesus in a milkbar

Alt...the twelve apostles and japanese jesus in a milkbar

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

fw_update(8) now checks dmesg(8) output in addition to dmesg.boot undeadly.org/cgi?action=articl

advokatt »
@km@mastodon.babb.no

as of 15 pf syntax is much closer to . this is big QoL improvement! sharing here as I had not noticed that earlier

netgate.com/blog/updates-to-th

vermaden »
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟮𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/12/29) available.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12

Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

Adam boosted

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

The BSDCan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html

If you tried to sign up as a new indico user and did not get the confirmation mail in time, please try again. The problem has been fixed.

The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done!

Want to know more about and the conferences? See nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd (and links therein) @bsdcan

Andrew Hewus Fresh »
@AFresh1@bsd.network

fosdembsd »
@fosdembsd@mastodon.bsd.cafe

OpenBSD advocacy ML : "Deployed my first client workload on OpenBSD... it won't be the last"

marc.info/?l=openbsd-advocacy&

@stefano

Miod Vallat »
@miodvallat@hostux.social

Dendrobatus Azureus »
@Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

I nearly forgot to wish those that celebrate a very happy OpenBSDmas too. 😉

A Christmas tree made out of pufferfish ( OpenBSD logo ) wearing Santa hats

Alt...A Christmas tree made out of pufferfish ( OpenBSD logo ) wearing Santa hats

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

The @bsdcan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html

The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done!

Want to know more about and the conferences? See nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd (and links therein)

🗳

Luzzy lop-eared bun 🏳️‍⚧️ »
@meluzzy@woof.tech

What terminal emu do you recommend?

Kitty:16
Alacritty:14
Hyper:0
Other (please comment):26

David Cantrell 🏏 »
@DrHyde@fosstodon.org

Ooooh, cross-platform-actions on now supports , (I asked for this a long time ago) and ! So that's three more things added to my to-do list for 2026.

I already use it for auto-testing my terrible code on and .

github.com/cross-platform-acti

vermaden »
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟮𝟮 (Valuable News - 2025/12/22) available.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12

Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

dch boosted

occult »
@occult@vox.ominous.net

I followed the instructions at squoze.net/UNIX/v4/README to boot the tape that @ricci and friends have recovered.

Was able to build the kernel from scratch then boot from it successfully.

Very fun! I am now running Fourth Edition from November 1973 from a kernel I compiled myself on my system.

malloc.c:

mem.c:

partab.c:

pc.c:

pipe.c:

rf.c:

rk.c:

rp.c:

tc.c:

tm.c:

tty.c:

vs.c:

vt.c:

# 1s -1 a.out
—IWXITWXIwx 1 root 27882 Jun 12 20:03 a.out
# mv a.out /nunix
# sync

# sync

# sync

# sync

#

Simulation stopped, PC: 002040 (MOV (SP)+,177776)
sim> b rk

k

nunix

mem = 64529
login: root

# 1s

bin

dev

etc

lib

mnt

nunix

tmp

unix

usr

# 1s =1 /unix /nunix
—rwxrwxrwx 1 root 27882 Jun 12 20:04 /nunix
-rw-r—-r—- 1 bin 27624 Jun 12 19:50 /unix
# ps

No mem

# cat /etc/passwd
root::0:1::/:
bin::3:1::/bin:

# 1s /bin

ar

as

bas

cat

cc

cdb

Alt...malloc.c: mem.c: partab.c: pc.c: pipe.c: rf.c: rk.c: rp.c: tc.c: tm.c: tty.c: vs.c: vt.c: # 1s -1 a.out —IWXITWXIwx 1 root 27882 Jun 12 20:03 a.out # mv a.out /nunix # sync # sync # sync # sync # Simulation stopped, PC: 002040 (MOV (SP)+,177776) sim> b rk k nunix mem = 64529 login: root # 1s bin dev etc lib mnt nunix tmp unix usr # 1s =1 /unix /nunix —rwxrwxrwx 1 root 27882 Jun 12 20:04 /nunix -rw-r—-r—- 1 bin 27624 Jun 12 19:50 /unix # ps No mem # cat /etc/passwd root::0:1::/: bin::3:1::/bin: # 1s /bin ar as bas cat cc cdb

fosdembsd »
@fosdembsd@mastodon.bsd.cafe

The BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS devroom schedule at Fosdem 2026 is online !

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track

Dark Blue Project »
@r1os@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Just in time before christmas, the R1OS Forum is ready and registrations are open. The forum is for all people that need some support or want to discuss about free and open source software, especially Linux and BSD operating systems.

Please note that the forum is not affiliated with any projects and cannot help with official problems related to these. Please use the official channels if you need specific help with a project.

forum.r1os.com

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

folks, I'm wondering as a currently user would I be better off running -devel aka ksh 93u+m ? If so what advantages would I get or possibly lose ? I see it's available on both and

Miod Vallat »
@miodvallat@hostux.social

R.L. Dane 🍵 »
@rl_dane@polymaths.social

"Too many #ThinkPads???"

I don't even know what that means!

#Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

Foreground; Thinkpad X260 (FreeBSD) with a couple Analog Nowhere stickers. 

Background: X390 Yoga (Fedora KDE for now, no stickers) on top of an X200t (OpenBSD) with only a UT Dallas sticker visible.

Alt...Foreground; Thinkpad X260 (FreeBSD) with a couple Analog Nowhere stickers. Background: X390 Yoga (Fedora KDE for now, no stickers) on top of an X200t (OpenBSD) with only a UT Dallas sticker visible.

David Cantrell 🏏 »
@DrHyde@fosstodon.org

I have it running on , , , , , , , and have a user on the legacy OS. That's basically everything that matters.

David Cantrell 🏏 »
@DrHyde@fosstodon.org

Well, 64-bit seems to be rock-solid when I run it in , it's only a crashy piece of shit in . 32-bit Trixie is fine in UTM, as are and . This isn't a general 64-bit issue, as seems to be stable.

I suppose that means it's time to ditch Debian for my testing.

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

The threat of new operating systems not supporting your current hardware is not new. I'm reprising my 2021 piece "The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems" nxdomain.no/~peter/blog_wild_w (tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/07/the) for your holiday or simply enjoyment.

Tomáš »
@prahou@merveilles.town

self-report

fish: "so this is everyone who thinks you're cool for using vi over vim."

girl: "but nobody is here"

girl: "oh"

fish smiles

Alt...fish: "so this is everyone who thinks you're cool for using vi over vim." girl: "but nobody is here" girl: "oh" fish smiles

Darkstar boosted

Tomáš »
@prahou@merveilles.town

the end of the search for the F.I.S.H.

"And there I found it"

Girl: "It's just that I thought.. FISH was an acronym"

Alt..."And there I found it" Girl: "It's just that I thought.. FISH was an acronym"

R.L. Dane 🍵 »
@rl_dane@polymaths.social

@justine

Heya! I've been daily-driving it for nearly a month on my main at-home laptop (Thinkpad X260).

It's pretty great! ZFS is darn near bulletproof, and after some initial challenges of getting wifi and GUI configured, it was pretty "boring"... until I tried upgrading to 15.0, lol

Figured out how to roll back to 14.3, and I'm now waiting for 15.1 before I try again (although I believe the issues I had have now been resolved, but I'm still going to wait ;)

Package availability is amazing (better than Debian in some cases!), and most things compile without any issues, although some things that don't have very well-written Makefiles are iffy and I got stuck.

Been having fun with Dosbox-X, playing games I loved 20-30 years ago. I couldn't get the Linux version of Kerbal Space Program to run under compat_linux, but I didn't really expect it to.

#OpenBSD definitely gets my vote for noob-friendly #BSD, since it has X11 in the base install, and it configures itself, but I now have sway (Wayland) running under #FreeBSD just as if I were still on Linux, so as long as someone is willing to skim through the pertinent parts of the handbook, it's a great OS.

The only downsides to #FreeBSD vs. Linux is that S3 resume takes a little longer (8 seconds instead of 1-3 seconds), and I have occasional hiccups, which I'm sometimes not able to recover from. Loading some websites in Firefox will make everything hang for several seconds at times (even though I'm launching Firefox via nice (1)), and there are some times that sway never quite recovers from S3 suspend, although that's rare. The good thing is that sometimes it will catch the power button and shut down cleanly, and even when it doesn't, #ZFS is so bulletproof that it just takes it all in stride.

There are occasional Linuxisms that feel a bit odd, like some of my packages (the swaync notification system and the duckstation console emulator are notable examples) require #pulseaudio of all things, which sometimes eats up my CPU. That's... really weird to me. I liked how minimal sndio on OpenBSD is.

Both major BSDs have very sane syntax for the config file that governs Wifi access points, and that's very refreshing to me after using a TUI to join networks on #Debian (although it's definitely possible to uninstall #NetworkManager on Debian and use the native interface config files, but they're not as nice/simple as the BSDs').

One really fun (if a bit cartoonish) way of comparing the BSD philosophy to the Linux philosophy is to look at doas vs sudo, specifically man doas.conf, then man sudoers.

The manpage for the sudoers file is pretty long and convoluted, as is the syntax for the file itself. doas.conf is super brief and to-the-point, and its manpage is pretty concise.

I think once they add the GUI setup tool to the FreeBSD setup wizard, that will be a real game-changer.

P.S., I haven't really daily-driven OpenBSD in a while, but I'm planning on getting an adapter so I can power my OpenBSD Thinkpad X200t off of a power bank, instead of the very dodgy OEM battery, so I can experiment with OpenBSD some more. I know the latest version has fixed the problems I was having with Emoji support, so I think that OS deserves another look. With the little bit of experimentation I've done in the last week, I've been pleasantly surprised with even Firefox' performance on that little Core 2 Duo. The only bummer about OpenBSD to me is the lack of ZFS or any other modern filesystem, so the occasional power losses or hang-ups become much more dangerous.

BastilleBSD »
@BastilleBSD@fosstodon.org

"What if" Wednesday

What if we could continue using the computers we have but no new computers could be built, what would that look one year, five years or even ten years later?

How long would your laptop last?

How long would your operating system last?

How long would the internet last?

vermaden »
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/12/15) available.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12

Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

OK So I'm interested to find out what all those cool folk running at home as servers are using hardware wise. Don't worry there is nothing to be ashamed of here as I'm really excited and interested to hear from folk recycling equipment. What CPU, RAM do you have? Also do you have a separate boot and data disks ? How big are they and are they raid or not? How many services are you running on that hardware?

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

So as you know I'm looking at repurposing an old Dell Optiplex 3080 tower as an server. It's already got 32GB ram and a 1Tb NVME drive. I was thinking about adding some spinning rust for the data drive but I'm unsure whether to just add one hard drive as I'll be doing regular backups to NAS anyway. Or should I spend more purchasing two of the same drives for my usual RAID 1 setup like I did with my server Beastie ?
Was looking at ways saving some £££ but maybe it's not a good idea ? It would eventually be hosting the following if possible. Snac instance, static website, git with cgit, Radicale, Syncthing and maybe a few more much much later.

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Wow ! Today I learned that now has in it's ports.
Wayback is a X11 compatibility layer which allows for running full X11
desktop environments using Wayland components. It is essentially a
stub compositor which provides just enough Wayland capabilities to
host a rootful Xwayland server.
https://openports.pl/path/wayland/wayback

jhx »
@jhx@mastodon.bsd.cafe

I wish all my people a happy weekend! 😎

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Pete Orrall »
@peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano

The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern . is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. is security-focused. is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.

Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like are all supported and releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.

FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.

Edit: Corrected errors. GhostBSD, not DragonflyBSD. Thanks @aru

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

I wonder if disabling TPM in the BIOS would make any difference to suspend and resume if it's enabled? Reason I'm wondering is because suspend resume worked on and without issues with this laptop.

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

As I thought suspend to ram goes down and the ThinkPad logo on the lid pulses slowly as it should. Push power button to resume and power light goes solid then you're left with a blank screen and no activity.
Oh well I'll go disable apmd for now.

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Playing with apmd and suspend to disk on my ThinkPad P14s AMD Gen 1 and I don't this this is going to work ? It's been like that for 5 minutes now.
Next I'll try suspend to ram which I also don't hold out much hope for. Good thing I just shutdown my laptop when I'm done. 😂

Screenshot showing my OpenBSD laptop with text at bottom of the screen saying unpacking image.

Alt...Screenshot showing my OpenBSD laptop with text at bottom of the screen saying unpacking image.

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Hypothetical question. If you were to donate to would you be better to donate directly to the OpenBSD project or to the OpenBSD Foundation ? Or possibly either as it really doesn't matter ?

Miod Vallat »
@miodvallat@hostux.social

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

I suppose I could spin up a vmm Linux instance on my laptop to just build the qmk firmware for my keyboard. That might indeed be the answer or just use my wife's BTW laptop. ;)

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

@justine while I am one of those lazy gits who prefer my keyboards be made for me, I'm sure there are people who make their own.

I'd suggest to air the issue on misc and see if anyone pipes up.

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Oooh. Do folk not build there own keyboards ? There's no qmk in their repos.

https://qmk.fm/

Peter N. M. Hansteen »
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Strange everything has been fine on current of late except for when I updated to this.

kern.version=OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) : Tue Dec 9 11:05:13 MST 2025

When I ran up bspwm and qutebrowser then watched an embedded video my external usb keyboard and trackball stopped working. The ThinkPads still worked so it seems I came across a USB issue ?
Any how I switched the keyboard and trackballs usb ports off and on via the usb hub and they started working again. I haven't managed to recreate this as yet so unsure about submitting a bug report ?

GIMP boosted

Tomáš »
@prahou@merveilles.town

Fish Alpinism

How I make digital art.

triapul.cz/_/1765291397

artist keyboard

Alt...artist keyboard

Andrew Hewus Fresh »
@AFresh1@bsd.network

Hmm, seems like this is the week of trouble-in-software. On my OpenBSD laptop prusa-slicer isn't finding any fonts 😠

gyptazy »
@gyptazy@gyptazy.com

People keep asking for free VPS / VMs and I’m evaluating a good spot for reopening the registration at @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe

I think might be a perfectly good slot to provide people BSD based systems for free again.


vermaden »
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

BoxyBSD »
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe

We're coming even closer to you again with our new locations which will be available soon for deployments:

* UK, London
* Norway, Sandefjord
* Sweden, Stockholm
* Canada, Toronto
* US, Kansas

@gyptazy

BoxyBSD logo with a globe - creating new locations across the globe

Alt...BoxyBSD logo with a globe - creating new locations across the globe

Andrew Hewus Fresh »
@AFresh1@bsd.network

Trying to compile OrcaSlicer on OpenBSD and _something_ is adding `-lstdc++` when linking the main binary. Cannot seem to find it to remove or change to `-Lestdc++`. This is on the _final_ step!!

Justine Smithies »
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

So I went on got my nails done today at Bien's and had them as promised painted in a red sparkly colour. On my ring finger I showed them a picture of the logo aka Puffy. She laughed as it was quite difficult but didn't refuse. I am extremely impressed as she had to wipe it off several times and laughed each time. I think she did really well considering don't you ? Excuse my scaby hands that's from proper graft that is 😂

A photo of my acrylic finger nails painted i n a red glitter and on my ring finger a white background with a pufferfish painted on aka the OpenBSD logo.

Alt...A photo of my acrylic finger nails painted i n a red glitter and on my ring finger a white background with a pufferfish painted on aka the OpenBSD logo.

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