Search results for tag #openbsd
use my promo code with your miniroot.img download
#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #penguin #comic #runbsd
Alt...
Mage, Puffy and Penguin are traversing the apocalyptic wasteland of the future.
There's something on Mage's mind. She speaks up.
Mage: "Master, there is a lot of penguin kids, scripting, ricing, confused-distro-hoppping, yet scared to follow the path of the FISH..."
Puffy: "I don't see how that's my problem. When they're ready to swim, they'll swim."
#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD folks (and other adjacent projects too, of course):
You should definitely submit a talk to the #BSDdevroom at #FOSDEM 2025 (Saturday)! We could use a few more proposals.
Call for Papers: https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem25/
Is it good idea to host my website with #OpenBSD #httpd without domain name, just ip address? I do not need domain because of better remembering, but there are maybe other reasons why to use domain... I suppose there should be a problem with tls and maybe https, I'd like to use https but when site is just static https may not be required.
After an afternoon of #TechnicalJiggeryPokery, I've got the various ones and zeroes representing our online clown work moved over to a new virtual server hosted by the ever helpful folks from @OpenBSDAms.
Like so many of my #OpenBSD experiences, the process was equal parts delightfully dull and proof that I have a lot to learn.
Enjoy the silliness over at https://circusfreaks.org, and do let me know (gently) if anything seems broken.
Game of Trees 0.106 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241122073321 #openbsd #got #git #gameoftrees #development #versioncontrol
Happy to see my @BoxyBSD project growing by providing free #VPS for education and opensource projects as a non-profit hoster.
BoxyBSD focusses on #BSD based systems like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD but also many more. The primary goal is to provide beginners a place to start and learn with BSD based systems and to show them proper alternatives. #RUNBSD
Good news! #OpenBSD -current now allows setting a separate performance policy (hw.perfpolicy) when on battery power vs. on AC power.
This is useful as a few years ago the default changed. The "auto" performance policy (hw.perfpolicy) is equivalent to "high" on when on AC power and there was no option to change this without custom kernel patches, or a userspace solution (sysutils/obsdfreqd).
jca@ modified src/sys/kern/sched_bsd.c: Let the user provide an alternative perfpolicy when on battery
The current behavior of "auto", which implies running at full speed when on AC power, does not fit all the hardware and use cases. For some people it results in more power consumption, more heat, more noise, etc.
Extend the semantics of hw.perfpolicy and provide two buttons to specify the desired behavior:
sysctl hw.perfpolicy=ac-policy,battery-policy
Keep the default behavior of "high,auto". People can opt for "auto,auto" or simply "auto" instead.
No objection from deraadt@, input and ok sobrado@ sthen@
Good morning procrastinators 😜 , it's time to submit your proposal for the 
Devroom https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem25/
#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FOSDEM
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰/𝟭𝟭/𝟭𝟴 (Valuable News - 2024/11/18) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/valuable-news-2024-11-18/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
Having not received any convincing counterarguments I extended my playground and now own a Lenovo X13 Yoga Gen 2 convertible with stylus. 😉
I am eager to find out if it is fun to use in tablet mode for reading, marking and making scribbles and sketchnotes in general and on #OpenBSD specifically. Otherwise #Debian will help me out. I'll let you know.
#thinkpad #x13yoga #bsd #runbsd #digitalplayground #weekend_microadventures #sketchnotes
retro girl design redux
The old design of Girl with her BMI laptop from 2020 is now available in sticker form for an unlimited time.
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/166415783
You may also consider to support my work financially with no special perks whatsoever: https://analognowhere.com/support/
Thank you.
#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #runbsd
Alt...
Girl lounges on her BMI laptop.
Emulating *BSD on ARM - a great series of blog posts by @bentsukun
https://bentsukun.ch/posts/bsd-arm-qemu/
@xdydx @stefano @h3artbl33d @gadgetbridge I have #OpenBSD on a #thinkcenter and #NetBSD on a #thinkpad. Both are #useful, #fun, #intriguing. Go for it.
After installing #OpenBSD on my #FrameworkLaptop everything on #xfce was so small because of the HiDPI screen. After changing some settings it is not perfect, but much better.
I can recommend this article: https://discovery.endeavouros.com/desktop-environments/xfce-hi-dpi-screens/2021/06/
Next step on my OpenBSD desktop journey is to fix the problem with the trackpad: the pointer freezes from time to time.
I am talking a lot about FreeBSD and privacy, but there are also other BSDs worth mentioning. One of them is OpenBSD. A few weeks ago I stumbled across a blogpost from @h3artbl33d, where he describes his way to OpenBSD and why he prefers it. It’s definitely worth reading. And if you’re interested in BSD and don’t need ZFS, jails or bhyve, but want an OS with focus on maximum security, you must try it.
Enjoy!
#bad #openbsd #security
Game of Trees 0.105 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241115065103 #openbsd #development #versioncontrol #got #git
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26606
The GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are currently queued. Hopefully they'll pass OK?
Even if they do, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
It looks as if undeadly.org could use a story too, time to see if someone beat me to submissions.
#GoT #GameOfTrees #VersionControl #OpenBSD #MacPorts #Git #OpenSource
You should know:
#Slackware published an update for the sudo package.
#OpenBSD released a security update for "libexpat":
005: SECURITY FIX: November 15, 2024 All architectures
In libexpat fix crash within function XML_ResumeParser.
CVE-2024-50602
My full interview is now online, with a focus on the experience at EuroBSDCon 2024 and BSDs in general. It is available (in Italian, but English subtitles are available) on:
- Peertube: https://tube.bsd.cafe/w/ddLTx12THN4xJXtS3iQrP6
- Youtube: https://youtu.be/J2B14sbNdZw
#RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #EuroBSDCon #EBC24 #EuroBSDCon24 #EuroBSDCon2024
Here is a preview of about one minute (in Italian, but with English subtitles) of the approximately 10-minute interview I gave about my company and why I prefer to solve problems with BSDs.
English subtitles are available.
Peertube link: https://tube.bsd.cafe/w/gKTWV3pjrs1RdMk8Mqyrx7
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/MvDP-6Abh_8
#RunBSD #Preview #PreviewOfInterview #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #OSS #OpenSource
conference of the spikes
#dragonflybsd #runbsd #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #hardenedbsd #bsd #unix_surrealism #comic
Alt...
Daemons, horned beasts and fish meet to confer.
A daemon speaks:
"I want you to think of reasons that would help promote our cause."
Everyone shouts ideas over one another.
"pf is the best!"
"well duh!"
"Matt Dillon?"
"HardenedBSD?"
"bhyve?"
"zfs?"
"mirabilos!"
Fish: "That time Theo fought the squid king and won?"
"Goddamnit, fish."
I am trying to find a reason for not buying another refurbished ThinkPad. I could ask my wife, but I rather ask you. 😉
Has anyone experience with a Lenovo Yoga convertible and its pencil on #OpenBSD?
Xournal++ is available as a package.
@tara Good question! I am doing the same over here on the #OpenBSD side with my #Framework 13, but with much less OS background knowledge than you or @justine have. It is fun so far. Setting up Syncthing an Vorta as a backup solution will be the next step - when I find the time. Good luck. 🙂
Yeepee, I can now automatically switch from laptop to external monitor to laptop to external (…) using #WindowMaker on #OpenBSD. Yes, if you use a real DE, you don’t care 😆
https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/automatic-display-switch-for-openbsd-laptop/
Installing OpenBSD to a Vultr VPS - Graslander https://www.graslander.online/index.php/installing-openbsd-to-a-vultr-vps/
A piece of oft-repeated #openbsd #pf advice, from this morning on openbsd-misc:
In addition to the official resources such as the PF FAQ (https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html) I think my own writings such as "A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/better_off_with_pf.html (or with G's trackers
as the cost for slightly nicer formatting https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-few-of-my-favorite-things-about.html)
which has a few useful links at the end including to a certain book that *might*
be worth looking into.
BoxyBSD is taking a break!
As announced, the new platform starts in December and therefore all new & free VPS provisioning are on hold. Mark your calendars and be ready in December!
Note: All #arm64 boxes are already out of stock. #AMD64 only. For more information see also our Matrix chat or @gyptazy
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #RUNBSD #BSD #BSDHosting #opensource #nonprofit #freeVPS #VPS #BSDVPS
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰/𝟭𝟭/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2024/11/11) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/valuable-news-2024-11-11/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰/𝟭𝟭/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2024/11/11) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/valuable-news-2024-11-11/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
Incompatible relationships
#unix_surrealism #gentoo #openbsd
Alt...
A girl is lying on her bed, messaging her boyfriend on a phone.
Boy: "Yo, dad's outta the house for the weekend. Wanna come over and compile gentoo?"
Girl: "idk."
The girl looks at a poster on her wall. It's the OpenBSD 5.4 release art.
Girl sighs.
Oh, look - it’s an #ARM64 based system!
Better be quick to grab one of the rare and free #aarch64 boxes at BoxyBSD running on the new Apple Mac mini.
Sponsored by @gyptazy
#runbsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #dragonflybsd #midnightbsd
If you are seeing this post that is likely because you followed me before at my old account at @fiery@mastodon.sdf.org
The fine folks there apparently were having some scaling issues and since I also wanted to be using a server software that is less wasteful, I moved here to bsd.cafe, graciously hosted by @stefano@bsd.cafe
If you are unsure whether you want to follow me, what is likely to be seen here is mostly pictures of #vegan food, #nature, #baking, and you will may also see me sometimes ranting about #technology, #programming, #privacy. Some of my interests in technology include #unix, #openbsd, #golang, #security. Glad to be on this new instance, hello bsd.cafe and snac.bsd.cafe people!
And Friday means weekend. Also, it is the day before Saturday. You know, the day when @bsd_nl is. A *BSD #meetup in #Utrecht, the #Netherlands
#OpenBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #GhostBSD #RUNBSD #BSDfam
I wish there was a nice interaction between vmd(8) and gethostbyname(3) or unwind(8) so I could `ssh somevm` and it would Just Work. Even if it only worked with "local" interfaces. #OpenBSD
@trashheap I have it turned off b/c #OpenBSD
Old: Zaonce - Dell Inspiron 1525 running OpenBSD 7.6 with Plasma 6.
Kudos to Rafael Sadowski @sizeofvoid et al for their great work of porting Plasma5/6.
Alt...
Screenshot of OpenBSD 7.6 running Plasma 6 on an old DELL Inspiron 1525
There's a default panel with an application launcher, a systray, clock and date and show desktop, along with some pinned apps an the left hand side of the screen.
A konsole window showing neofetch stats and an Ascii Art Puffy - the Pufferfish OpenBSD mascott on the upper right corner of the screen.
I have six blog posts waiting to be finished. One of them is quite lengthy and detailed, and it’s been stuck since just before I left for EuroBSDCon in Dublin. I was hoping to complete it before the trip, but it’s still there.
A couple of the posts are simpler, while I’m uncertain whether to focus on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or NetBSD for one of them. I’ll probably cover all three! 😉
This morning a colleague told me he tried both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. He said he found them "strange." For example, FreeBSD doesn’t have the bash in the base system, and even after installing it, it’s not in "/bin/bash", "which it should be because all the scripts expect it to be there."
I explained to him that scripts shouldn’t have hard-coded paths, but unfortunately, they do. He said he gave up and that he might try again later since "the BSDs do things their own way."
One of the problems for those approaching a new operating system is they should consider it as a standalone entity rather than a "variant" of another. Linux users are often confused because they regard BSDs as just another "distribution." They don’t realize that having a shell doesn’t mean having the same operating system or procedures underneath.
I’m reminded of the famous saying by Oscar Wilde, that the English and the Americans are two peoples divided by the same language: paradoxically, for a new user, it’s easier to perceive the difference when the two operating systems are extremely different (like Windows and Linux) than when they are seemingly similar (like Linux and the BSDs).
I will try to have a "four hands" session with my colleague because I believe he would greatly benefit from using BSDs.
Yes, it could be a rounding error compared to FreeBSD but there are use cases, especially around features that FreeBSD doesn't carry in the network stack.
FreeBSD network stack is probably the best there is in any OS (moving around 400Gb/s of encrypted traffic) but it is lacking a lot of other features that are needed in some use cases.
Then you have the Linux shit show that has 1000 distributions that do almost the same thing, but not.
Why I prefer *BSD for hosting? One of the reasons, from 1,5 weeks ago:
A customer at work expected a surge in traffic, due to having a sale, on their WooCommerce-based webshop. #OpenBSD handled it like a champ, dealing with 2,51 million requests in nearly six hours time. This includes dynamic stuff like accounts and the checkout. All from a single VM (8C, 32G).
OpenBSD's pf(4) allows easily filtering out baddies, throttling an insane number of requests from a single origin, keeping unwanted traffic out. All while being secure and sound with the chroot and other OpenBSD innovations.
Also, the mere thought that disaster recovery is that simple, gives a large amount of peace of mind.
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰/𝟭𝟭/𝟬𝟰 (Valuable News - 2024/11/04) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/valuable-news-2024-11-04/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
For those looking for OpenBSD advocacy material, I will allow myself to push my own "What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD", as a three part series on the APNIC blog starting with part one at https://blog.apnic.net/2021/10/28/openbsd-part-1-how-it-all-started/, also available in one big chunk without tracking at my webspace https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_every_it_person_needs_to_know_about_openbsd.html or *with* trackers and slightly nicer formatting at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-every-it-person-needs-to-know.html - enjoy!
(also links therein) #openbsd #securebydefault #qualitysoftware
Oh by the way: tomorrow is really the last day to order a ticket with a lunch for our *BSD meetup @bsd_nl - after that you'll still be able to get a (free) ticket but no lunch.
We can't make exceptions and we won't sell lunches at the venue (due to logistics) - so if you want to partake in the lunch: order now!
Links and more info in the original Toot
#OpenBSD #HardenededBSD #SecBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #RUNBSD #Meetup #Netherlands #BSDNL
Why OpenBSD Rocks is a great resource when you want to know why #OpenBSD rocks https://why-openbsd.rocks/about/
Upgraded to #OpenBSD 7.6. It went fine. But now everything I built from source dumps core. Yay! I blame @ParadeGrotesque, I'm sure it was him who pointed out to me that 7.6 was now available.
#OpenBSD 7.6 now has three new updates:
- one for X11,
- another for an encryption bug on big-endian machines (hppa m88k mips64 powerpc powerpc64 sh sparc64)
- and a last one for arm64, more specifically for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4?) machines. 
P.S. Sorry people that come in via transit, only 1Gb for you (hint: have your ISP peer with #EdgeIX).
Install OpenBSD via Serial Console
http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/serial/
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰/𝟭𝟬/𝟮𝟴 (Valuable News - 2024/10/28) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/10/28/valuable-news-2024-10-28/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
I have been renting a VPS with 2 vcpu and 2Gb of RAM. The default OS is Ubuntu 24.04.
When I checking the system info using top/htop, it is specified that the total RAM capacity of my VPS is 2GB. But when I switched to #openBSD htop show me that my total RAM is 1Gb.
the dmesg says "irtio0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Memory Balloon" rev 0x00"
what exactly is this Balloon?
Alt...
htop showing my total mem is 1Gb
I'm in searching for vnconfig(8) #openbsd equivalent app for Windows 11
Search for the FISH pt. 4523
#unix_surrealism #technomage #cirno #9front #openbsd
Alt...
Girl approaches a weird blue haired fairy (Cirno) wearing a bulletproof vest, accompanied by a rabbit-creature.
Girl inquires about 'the FISH', showing the fairy a rugged hand-drawn picture, of a spiky circle.
Cirno examines the drawing.
Cirno: "The FISH... Yeah, we know it. I'll tell you where to find it... But just so you know, there will eventually come a time when you'll seek the rabbit instead."
So, lovely #OpenBSD people: my project for the coming days is to install OpenBSD on my HP PA-RISC workstation from the early 2000s (HP Visualize C3750), a pretty powerful machine for its day. Does anyone have any experience with OpenBSD on hppa?
Biggest question mark is bringing up X. I have the most powerful GPU this workstation can handle - an HP Visualize FX10pro - and there's not a lot of information out there about if it's supported.
After 5 days, I have realized the easiest way to install #OpenBSD (maybe #FreeBSD too) on a Linux VPS that doesn't provide noVNC serial console is by using a modified boot.conf image.
http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/serial/
Before discovering this method, I was building my own image using qemu. This is very exhausting even though it's usable
Finally, I can install #openBSD on my Linux VPS. This is only the first half of the work to be done.
Alt...
OpenBSD 7.6 neofetch
Tell me that this is the desktop of someone that has a thing for #OpenBSD without actually telling me.
I think I did a pretty okay job 
Alt...
Photo showing a desktop, with the OpenBSD 7.6 release art hanging on the wall, a tile with "delete Linux install OpenBSD" and the release of 3.7 laying on the mini PC. There is a large monitor visible and keyboard, mouse, and two speakers.
The #OpenBSD snapshot from last sunday (#382: Sun Oct 20 22:24:26 MDT 2024) is causing random crashes (full freezes) for me on two completely different systems.
Fortunately, downgrading is peanuts:
- Boot into
bsd.rd, (U)pgradethe machine,- Use the mirror
ftp.hostserver.de, - And the path:
archive/2024-10-19-0105/snapshots/amd64.
Upgrade, reboot, done 
Game of Trees 0.104 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241023071210 #openbsd #gameoftrees #got #git #versioncontrol #development
Last night, it occurred to me that for some years now, I have a credit of almost 100 euros from a British VPS provider. I decided that before I lose it, I could put it to good use.
I set up a VPS with OpenBSD to act as a caching/reverse proxy for the media of the BSD Cafe and my blog.
This way, users in the UK and Ireland will experience a (slight) reduction in latency.
Setup similar to this: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/08/29/make-your-own-cdn-openbsd/
#OpenBSD #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafe #BSDCafeAnnouncements
I like to use s5 for my slides (via the Pod::S5 perl module), but that means it is hard to share them easily. Turns out, it's pretty possible to convert it to a PDF, with "screenshots" of the slides. I'll probably be able to update https://www.openbsd.org/events.html now.
https://gist.github.com/afresh1/ecac56c617306d135497b0c26990c057
https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::S5
Just released a new #OpenBSD 7.6 cloud image on https://bsd-cloud-image.org
The new image included #cloud-init 24.3.1 and is generated by my own build script via a github action: https://github.com/hcartiaux/openbsd-cloud-image
KDE Plasma 6 on #OpenBSD - made possible by the great work of @sizeofvoid
Alt...
Screenshot of KDE Plasma 6, showing the application launcher and a background of a pier, near the water and trees in the background
For the better part of this month, I ran KDE Plasma 6 on #OpenBSD on my daily workstation. It is fantastic and truly awesome work by @sizeofvoid and the rest of the team.
Today, I've switched back to cwm though, because quite simply: KDE just isn't my thing.
But trying out something different once in a while is fantastic. KDE is great, the progress on OpenBSD is awesome and the devs have been doing mindblowing work. Truly amazed!
tinkering with #OpenBSD for the first time in a while. It's for a thing, which might become a thing worth a write-up if I can make it thing like I want it to.
@RL_Dane @alfabravoteam @OpenComputeDesign In my last #OpenBSD install, which was 7.3, the installer made the final partition, which contains /home, a certain size that was much smaller that it could have been.
That way if you need to make a bigger partition for something else, you have the space.
This was a desktop system, so I just made my /home super large. I haven't run out of space in /usr over the last 3 upgrades, and I have a lot of packages installed.
@alfabravoteam @OpenComputeDesign
The only problem is the lack of dynamic partitioning such as #lvm on #OpenBSD.
Of course, the classic "fix" to that is to only add what you think you'll need, and leave plenty of free space at the end of the partition.
That's what I did on my most recent install.
Seems like Electron was removed from #OpenBSD ports almost two years ago:
remove electron; it is a waste of time
Couldn't agree more.
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰/𝟭𝟬/𝟮𝟭 (Valuable News - 2024/10/21) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/valuable-news-2024-10-21/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
Now that #OpenBSD 7.6 is out, a reprise of the daily life with our favorite operating system piece "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html (prettified, tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html) may be in order.
Enjoy the #OpenBSD #freesoftware #securebydefault experience!