Updated my httpd.rocks guide with a small section about implementing Basic HTTP Authentication:

https://httpd.rocks/#http-basic-authentication

#httpd #openbsd #http

Now that OpenBSD-current is 7.8-beta, it is time to reprise "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html (tracked version https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html) to prepare :)

#openbsd #newrelease #78beta #upgrading #sysadmin #unixlike #devops #development

13 days to go!
WireGuard + IPv6 + ad-blocking on FreeBSD – private, secure, minimal.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/09/23/make-your-own-vpn-freebsd-wireguard-ipv6-and-ad-blocking-included/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

Thank you ❤️

#RunBSD

OpenBSD enters 7.8-beta https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250911045955 #openbsd #openbsd78 #newrelease #betaversion #development #freesoftware #libresoftware #testitnow

heh. with another 70 weeks of log data to sift through, the count of imaginary friends at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml just rolled past seven million (also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #spamtraps #imaginaryfriends #spamd #smtp #cybercrime #openbsd

Dear friends of BSD Cafe, I've just approved the 500th user for this instance.
That's right, the 500th friend has just joined the BSD Cafe's Mastodon instance.
This calls for a celebration!

EDIT: 500 users are currently registered, not counting those who moved, left, or started self-hosting.

#BSDCafe #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #RunBSD

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our silver sponsor: Netflix
https://www.netflix.com/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

Vidimo se u Zagrebu!!

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Logo Netflix

In two weeks, at EuroBSDCon, Tom Smyth and I will be giving a Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/FW39CX/ tutorial.

Register via https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html

#eurobsdcon #zagreb #openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter #networkin #security

14 days to go!
Benchmarks: FreeBSD bhyve vs Proxmox (KVM) – strengths and trade-offs.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/06/10/proxmox-vs-freebsd-which-virtualization-host-performs-better/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

Version control system #gameoftrees 0.118 has been released.

🐛​ Fix a security issue in got-portable: Ever since chroot-less operation was introduced in the 0.111 release, gotwebd could be tricked into reading #git repositories located outside its designated repository directory. The #OpenBSD version is not affected because it uses unveil to limit itself to this directory.

🕸️​ gotwebd is more snappy now that it actually processes requests in parallel based on the number of pre-forked workers set in the configuration file. This feature was already present but it did not work as intended.

❓​Parsing of gotwebd querystrings and FCGI parameters has been moved into a dedicated process which runs in chroot, and on #OpenBSD runs under pledge("stdio").

📁​ gotsysd no longer disables sftp/scp support in the generated sshd configuration file. This was disabled on purpose but not having it enabled is too inconvenient for system administrators.

https://gameoftrees.org/releases/changes.html

For the next release, we are working on authentication support for gotwebd, which will allow us to finally deploy gotwebd on @gothub

15 days to go!

Forging a FreeBSD backup stronghold with ZFS, jails and send/recv.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/29/make-your-own-backup-system-part-2-forging-the-freebsd-backup-stronghold/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

PSA: If you are running gotwebd from #gameoftrees -portable 0.111 (released 2025-04-22) or later on a machine which contains unrelated #git repositories that are supposed to remain secret you should ensure that the _gotwebd user cannot read those repositories, or stop gotwebd altogether until we have shipped a fix.

Servers running #OpenBSD are not affected by this problem.

Hello #Fosstodon and the #Mastodon fediverse!

GreenCore is a non-profit / charitable org start-up that recycles EOL IT equipment in the UK & advocates for the adoption of Free (libre) and Open Source software in communities, organisations, & SMBs globally.

With 20+ years as a hobbyist & professional, I brought my XP in F/OSS, coding, and DevOps in GNU/Linux, #FreeBSD, and #OpenBSD to this project & hope to provide hosted services+knowledge to the wider community as well as locally.

Danyal

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GreenCore logo (a green G with rings around it and decorative bubbles above) with the text 'GreenCore'

Been There, Done That. If you can read this, #GoToSocial was upgraded to v0.19.2 and still works on the unsupported #OpenBSD (7.7/amd64) platform using SQlite and nowasm.

#RunBSD

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟬𝟴 (Valuable News - 2025/09/08) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/valuable-news-2025-09-08/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

16 days to go!

FreeBSD tips: native read-only root filesystem, simple and effective.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/05/31/freebsd-tips-and-tricks-native-ro-rootfs/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/releases/tag/2.0.0

The last BSDCan 2025 video has been posted!
Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD by Jeff Frasca

https://youtu.be/oo_8gnWQ4xo

I'm typing this in my Xuake Wayland Compositor on OpenBSD.

I started this journey on the NetBSD 9.99.x branch and ended up having to dig into the guts of wscons, mesa, libdrm, the kernel drm subsystem, the AMDGPU driver and more. I have a couple of very small, but hard fought patches in the NetBSD kernel. It's not over yet, either. I still have a few bugs around the compositor shutdown process and a lot of integration work to be able to hope to have other people try this out.

Topics to cover in the talk include (but are not limited to):

History of Wayland and other background info

How your graphics stack and driver is organized and actually works

The actual porting journey on both NetBSD and OpenBSD

A Demo! I should be able to show it running

Current status, future work

For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
- and -
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Adventures-in-porting.html

#wayland #runbsd #openbsd #netbsd

17 days to go!
The story of migrating an entire server from Proxmox to FreeBSD.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/21/from-proxmox-to-freebsd-story-of-a-migration/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

NSD (Authoritative DNS server in base) has been updated to 4.13.0 in #OpenBSD -current, after being at 4.9.1 due to significant upstream changes, such as replacing the flex+bison zone parser with a new SIMD optimized implementation.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=175718025319783&w=2

This follows last weeks update of Unbound to 1.23.1.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=175667610815019&w=2

#GoodNews! Re earlier toot, Reading The Fine Manual seems to have made everything work with #OpenBSD 7.7. Who'da thunk it?!?!?

#RTFM #SysadminningForDummies

While I rebuild all the things on #OpenBSD in that window over there <-, the #ENGvsAUS #RugbyWorldCup match is about to start in that window over there ->

Soundtrack: Tres Herpes, by #TenTonneDozer, which arrived in the post this morning

#Rugby #Music #Metal

Time to try again with the #OpenBSD 7.7 upgrade. Last time I tried it somehow just broke everything related to the #CPAN but given how robust both the CPAN and OpenBSD and their ecosystems are I'm pretty sure I fucked something up. So ... this time I am using the superpower of Reading The Instructions Carefully At Every Step.

Say no to #Vibe #Sysadminning!

Have you been wondering why the list of imaginary friends at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml has been expanding quicker than usual this week?

It's because I found another batch of old logs that are now getting the more thorough treatment (also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #spamd #greytrapping #spam #cybercrime #openbsd

18 days to go!
From heavy VMs to lightweight BastilleBSD jails - saving resources and simplifying ops.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/11/27/migrating-from-vm-to-hierarchical-jails-freebsd/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

19 days to go!
How to install FreeBSD on providers that don’t support it, using mfsBSD.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/02/install_freebsd_providers_mfsbsd/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

20 days to go!

Guide: Move an entire FreeBSD installation to a new host or VM with ZFS send/recv.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/16/moving-freebsd-installation-new-host-vm/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

My upcoming book, The Book of PF 4th edition, is part of B&N’s pre-order sale Sept 3–5! Use code PREORDER25 for 25% off (35% for Premium members).

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-book-of-pf-4th-edition-peter-nm-hansteen/1147997310?ean=9781718504707

#bookofpf #bnpreorder #openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #security #nostarch #barnesandnoble

NSD 4.13 released with experimental support for AF_XDP sockets, disabled TLS 1.2 if TLS 1.3 is available, logging for XoT transfers, changed default send-buffer-size to 4M to mitigate a cross-layer issue

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/nsd/releases/tag/NSD_4_13_0_REL

#nsd #nlnetlabs #dnsserver #opensource #freesoftware #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dnssecurity

With #OpenBSD, Chromium and it's forks had broken snapshot packages on arm64. Fortunately robert@ came to the rescue and fixed it:

• Chromium
• Ungoogled Chromium

(Iridium seems to be a bit behind - but that'll sort itself out eventually as robert@ is a core maintainer of Iridium)

21 days to go!
How we ditched Kubernetes and regained sanity with FreeBSD.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/07/04/from-cloud-chaos-to-freebsd-efficiency/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5 https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250903064251 #openbsd #arm64 #rpi #rpi5 #raspberrypi #raspberrypi5 #development #pisupport #freesoftware #libresoftware #hacking

@nixCraft

Looking forward to the creative ways the #OpenBSD community finds to roast whichever douchebag decided to "publish" that slop. ;)

22 days to go!
Why BSDs in 2025?

My perspective and why we moved many services from Linux to the BSDs.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

Come to Zagreb September 24-28, 2025 and geek out with other BSD people at EuroBSDcon!

See https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
Program https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/
Registration https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html

#openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #zagreb #eurobsdcon #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #devops #sysadmin #networking #security

Initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 is heading to #OpenBSD/arm64 -current snapshots soon, with some caveats. ​

kettenis@ modified www/arm64.html: Add Raspberry Pi 5.

mglocker@ modified src/distrib/arm64/*: Add Raspberry Pi 5 Model B support for RAMDISK.

Known issues:

• Booting from PCIe storage HATs doesn't work because of missing U-Boot support.
• WiFi on the Raspberry Pi 5 Model B "d0" boards doesn't work.
• The active cooler (fan) doesn't work because of missing pwm/clock drivers (some work is in-progress).

ok kettenis@, deraadt

EDIT: Some info I've gleaned, bwfm(4) WiFi should work for C1 stepping rpi5 boards, just not the later D0 stepping, also nvme(4) hats work for storage just not for booting yet (U-Boot support not ready). Ethernet should be cad(4) for the onboard Cadence chipset.

Today is Monday, 1st September. And September means one thing: EuroBSDCon!

23 days to go until EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb!

I’m doing a little “advent calendar” for BSD fans: each day until the conference I’ll share one article from it-notes.dragas.net about FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, ZFS, PF and more. The dedicated hashtag will be #EuroBSDConAdvent

Let’s start right away with "I Solve Problems" - my EuroBSDCon 2024 (and #BSDCan 2025) talk about migrating from Linux to BSDs:

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/

If you’re coming to Zagreb, reply to this post - it would be nice to meet up with fellow BSD users!

#EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD #EuroBSDConAdvent

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟬𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/09/01) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/valuable-news-2025-09-01/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

When I'm asked why OpenBSD is good and that I want to reply honestly, I have no argument.

From a technical point of view, I can't tell any strong benefits using OpenBSD, NetBSD or FreeBSD over Linux, although this doesn't mean they are bad.

It would be easy for me to be "cargo-culting" facts, being a "fanboy" or enumerating features that are exclusive to one (and they are rare, except if you are looking for the very very same feature!).

The truth is that what one OS will do better than an other, it will also do worse in another area.

It's important that we keep the BSD systems as relevant Linux alternatives: for software diversity, innovation and freedom of choice.

#linux #openbsd #foss #opensource #netbsd #freebsd

I had no idea that the Lite-XL editor was in #OpenBSD ports. Feels very close to Sublime Text...

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Lite-XL editor running on OpenBSD, showing the main init.lua settings file.

https://justine.smithies.me.uk/2023/05/13/how-i-store-my-dotfiles/

Am I reading the documentation right for #OpenBSD Game Of Trees ( got ) ? If so I think it is saying that the working directory and the got repo are in two different locations ? Which in my head means that I could create a got repo in home/justine/Got/dotfiles and just add the required files and directories from the working directory into it which would be /home/justine ?
Does this make sense ? Am I even right ???

https://gameoftrees.org/index.html

@amadaluzia

Great write-up!

I believe the BSD community is creating a permissively-licensed Git client called Got ("Game of Trees"), so maybe when that's complete, #OpenBSD might consider migrating away from CVS? I don't know.

I just found out that you can still get (smallish) 4:3 HDMI monitors, so I'm tempted to do a #RetroComputing / #LowEndComputing challenge with OpenBSD and a Raspberry Pi Zero W (original generation). XD

Now this is real convenient, especially on machines where it's impossible to hit the right key fast enough to enter the UEFI BIOS settings.

On #OpenBSD/amd64, you can now type "machine fwsetup" at the boot> prompt in efiboot. ​

jmatthew@ modified src/sys/arch/amd64/stand/{efi,}boot/*: Add a 'mach fwsetup' command, which uses the EFI OsIndications feature to reboot the machine into the firmware setup interface, if supported.
This is an optional feature introduced in UEFI 2.4 (released 2013).

ok kn@

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb September 24-28 https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
Program https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/
Register https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html

#zagreb #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #development #devops #sysadmin

The next scheduled "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" fullday session is at EuroBSDcon in Zagreb, 2025-09-25 10:30–17:30: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/FW39CX/

register here: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html

#openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #security #eurobsdcon

And I just bought an openbsd.amsterdam vm set up. I'm planning on using it to host my sites: https://gnu-hurd.com, gnucode.me, propernaming.org, etc.

#hurd #openbsd

Well I just sold a T43 laptop running Debian GNU/Hurd and I listed a T400 running OpenBSD. That's kind of cool!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/396997472741

#hurd #openBSD

@justine I really hope #OpenBSD gets #Wayland support...

• Because it's the way forward...

"Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html (also https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-book-of-pf-4th-edition-is-coming.html), title still true, actual publication date TBD, #bookofpf #pf #packetfilter #openbsd #freebsd #networking #security #trickery #hacking

No huge details (more on that in later guides), but I wrote about the basic hardware setup for my home network based on #openbsd

"My OpenBSD Home Network Setup"

https://btxx.org/posts/network-setup-2025/

#networking #router

In one month (2025-09-25), there will be a "Network management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" tutorial https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/FW39CX/ at #eurobsdcon in #zagreb To register: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html #openbsd #freebsd #networking #security #unixlike

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/08/25) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/valuable-news-2025-08-25/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Turns out I still had the following in my translate script:

#!/bin/bash

Instead of:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

Now it's working. What a rookie mistake. Thank you @jsph@mstdn.ca ;)

Anyone running #Qutebrowser on #OpenBSD and tried running the translate userscript ?

I get the following error when the script is executable and in the following location as the doc says.

~/.local/share/qutebrowser/userscripts/translate

The error:

15:27:34 ERROR: Userscript '/home/justine/.local/share/qutebrowser/userscripts/translate' failed to start: Child process set up failed: execve: No such file or directory

https://github.com/AckslD/Qute-Translate/blob/master/translate

Boosts appreciated ❤️

openBSD is almost there... Almost.

I finally have a "working" (not 100%) desktop with the correct display, but it is still buggy.

For example, I would normally get sound via my DisplayPort, but oddly I can only get it through the mini (tiny) built in speaker inside the PC case. And despite having the volume on maximum it is still soft.

GPU is a AMD Radeon RX 6400.

I have GNOME working, but cannot get KDE Plasma to load. GDM cannot even find KDE even though the desktop shortcut are there.

You can install pipewire, but you cannot start it. The sound is likely coming from openBSD's own sound driver. I did not try to get Bluetooth working.

The idea was to get openBSD working and run a few virtual machines. But if I cannot get sound and later Bluetooth (keyboard), that means running a VM will be pointless.

#openBSD

Oh, the number of bsdly imaginary friends just rolled past 6 million, https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (background https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html), may update graphs at month end #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #antispam #cybercrime #nastykidsister

C++ library update in -current https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250822171538 #openbsd #cplusplus #c++ #programming #development #library #clang #freesoftware #libresoftware

Yubikey OTP support disabled in -current https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250822064253 #openbsd #yubikey #otp #auth #security #buggysoftware #freesoftware #libresoftware

@mischa @justine OpenBSD is addictive

#OpenBSD #RunBSD

(SHA256) xshare77.tgz: FAILED

I changed my mirror from https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ to https://mirror.ox.ac.uk/pub/OpenBSD/ and it works perfectly. Thanks for those suggestions though.

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Screenshot of my xterm terminal output showing the SHA error after a doas sysupgrade -s command

Running some initial tests, but for now the "httpd rocks" website is being served from a Raspberry Pi 400 in my basement (running #OpenBSD, of course)

We will see how things go...

https://httpd.rocks/

#server #SelfHosting

Turns out, if you type #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD or #Linux in DuckDuckGo search bar, cute duck logo changes respectively.
But not for #NetBSD! NetBSD people, rise up!

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Four screenshots of DuckDuckGo search bar: "openbsd", "freebsd", "linux", "netbsd" with DDG logo changed respectively for every search term except for NetBSD.

The latest BSD Weekly https://bsdweekly.com/issues/245 features "Eighteen Years of Greytrapping ..." (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html and https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html - a warmup to #bookofpf 4th ed https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition) #openbsd #freebsd #security #mail #spam #hacking #cybercrime @nostarch

@mwl

meanwhile, #OpenBSD giving you the best of both worlds 😉

See referenced text below:

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) updated the version of OpenBSD -current to "7.7-current".

Those running the latest-and-greatest [via a sufficiently new snapshot or built from source] no longer need to use "-D snap" with pkg_add(1) (and pkg_info(1)).

Soon a new OpenBSD release, v 7.8, will be on the horizon. Time prepare and to reprise "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html (also https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html) #openbsd #install #sysadmin #devops #maintenance #packages #freesoftware #libresoftware

OpenSSH will now adapt IP QoS to actual sessions and traffic https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250818113047 #openbsd #openssh #ssh #qos #adaptive #networking #security #qualityofservice

Hey! My "Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?" https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html) is on @vermaden's Valuable news https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/valuable-news-2025-08-18/ #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #freebsd #valueablenews

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟴 (Valuable News - 2025/08/18) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/valuable-news-2025-08-18/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Game of Trees 0.117 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250818074301 #openbsd #gameoftrees #got #git #development #programming #versioncontrol #freesoftware #libresoftware

is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux? (tedu@) https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250817075800 #openbsd #performance #benchmarks #fork #development #freesoftware #linux #libresoftware

SEE ALSO
dunst(5), dunstctl(1), dmenu(1), notify-send(1), dunstify(1)

The @EuroBSDCon 2021 😈⛳🐡 video's are now mirrored on Exquisite.tube.

So, if you want to:

• Learn how to setup high available WANs with OpenBSD,
• Get familiar with GhostBSD as a daily driver,
• Verify whether 'our' Dexter is a serial BSD tester and not the serial killer,
• Learn why FreeBSD Aarch64 Virtual Machines are boring,

Now you can! Errr, you already could, but now more privately, federated and without Big Tech.

The playlist for all 2021 talks can be found here.

Good weekend all and happy hacking!

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #GhostBSD #RunBSD

We could not pass the opportunity to inform you that in 42 days the European *BSD 😈⛳🐡 event of 2025 will start!

Grab your tickets 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org

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More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #Conference #Register

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"Daily Struggle" meme with a character attempting to push one of two red buttons labeled with contradicting statements. First button says: Life, The Universe, and everything Second button says: 42 Detailed on: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/daily-struggle-two-buttons

It's heartwarming to a greying geek that a 5000+ words retrospective on greytrapping is turning out to be popular - https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

#greytrapping #spam #antispam #greylisting #blocklist #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #ssh #passwords #passwordguessing #pop3 #security #networking #cybercrime

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #bootleg #youtube #comic

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Girl: I would reall like the openbased t-shirt!" Puffy: "I would really like you to stop consuming youtube content."

Is anyone able to compile #Zerotier on #OpenBSD?
I've been able in the past but now it seems to fail

https://codeberg.org/OpenBSD

I wonder if the #OpenBSD folk have considered moving their Git mirror from #GitHub to say #Codeberg ?

"No head I will not wipe FreeBSD from my laptop in favor of OpenBSD!" 🙄

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=8e3bae7f65

Successfully serving some test sites off my local Mac Mini running OpenBSD / httpd. It’s currently using Eero’s DDNS for the port reservations and forwarding, so it’s only temporary until my real router arrives.

Just a good test though 👍

#openbsd #networking

Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps intended to fool spammers rolled past the number of inhabitants in my home country of Norway. It's time for a retrospective.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

#greytrapping #spam #antispam #greylisting #blocklist #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #ssh #passwords #passwordguessing #pop3 #security #networking #cybercrime

Post-Quantum Cryptography Advice Added to OpenSSH Website https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250811110058 #openbsd #openssh #ssh #cryptography #postquantum #postq #crypto #security #libresoftware #freesoftware #bsd

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps intended to woo the unwary spammer rolled past the number of inhabitants in my home country of Norway. It's time for a retrospective.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

#greytrapping #spam #antispam #greylisting #blocklist #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #ssh #passwords #passwordguessing #pop3 #security #networking #cybercrime

Good news for #CAD software users, #FreeCAD (1.0.1) is now in the #OpenBSD -current ports tree. ​

A huge effort by Johannes Thyssen Tishman (jtt@) and other porters getting this committed.

jtt@ modified ports/cad/freecad/*: Import cad/freecad

ok jca@ and rsadowski@

FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.

Context: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=175414002928343&w=2

@cummerbund @steely_glint
Test it with your load? I'm running #OpenBSD with pf, bind, unbound, squid over a gigabit link with no issues, but it's an r210-2 which does not qualify as quiet. I presume OP has done some troubleshooting since they installed a different OS.

It looks like it is goodbye to #openBSD as my router.
I've had an openBSD running as firewall or router since about 2002 but finally got to the point that it isn't worth the performance hit.

Specifically there doesn't seem to be a sensibly priced quiet box that will run openBSD+pf+pppoe at 1Gb/s so I think it is probably time to look at commercial alternatives like FritzBox! and Ubiquity.

I tried FreeBSD - which has similar problems.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps intended to woo the unwary spammer rolled past the number of inhabitants in my home country of Norway.

It's time for a retrospective.

#greytrapping #spam #antispam #greylisting #blocklist #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #ssh #passwords #passwordguessing #pop3 #security #networking #cybercrime