@justine
I've been in the hole tor almost 7 years. Maybe I broke a mirror or something!

I just tried it on a IBM t42 laptop and it spread out! Even my mom got it now. And my laptops.

It's sort of sadistic, but I can't help it! It put a spell on me.
I've dabbled in FreeBSD, but it's been a worse experience setting up laptops with it.

Can't wait to get my router set up with OpenBSD and pf and ike2 VPN etc...

I love #OpenBSD - #RunBSD !

@stefano Feeling the pain with #tailwindcss on OpenBSD. V3 was working with some fiddling but V4 broke again. It is pretty annoying to be honest.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #webdev

A quick fc-list | grep -i emoji does indeed show the correct font is installed.

/usr/local/share/fonts/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: Noto Color Emoji:style=Regular

https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1atanzd/color_emoji_not_shown/

What could be the reason I get "Packet has unallowed source IP from peer 1" by #wireguard? I basically copied the server setup from #Linux to #OpenBSD and just used the new server address on the client.

Otro canal que publica algunos vídeos sobre #OpenBSD es el de @Zaney
Aquí tienes uno sobre la grabación de escritorio (con un script suyo usando ffmpeg):
https://youtu.be/0OGO8LXVx8E
el script que presenta está en el repositorio https://gitlab.com/Zaney/capscreen

El canal YT de @Zaney publicó hace unos días otro vídeo sobre cómo configura #OpenBSD para su entorno de escritorio:

https://youtu.be/3YP5ooHohjg

*sigh* so yes, I admit it - my daily driver still is @VoidLinux for various reasons that make me sound like a #1990s #windows user reluctant to switch to #linux. It involves cheap USB grabbers among other things.

Yet I have a weak sport for #NetBSD 🧡 and while #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD get some fair coverage here on the #fediverse, I am getting the impresson that NetBSD is a bit under-presented here.

So, do you also 🧡 NetBSD?!

https://netbsd.org/

Power consumption and performance notes of a modified #fanless Fujitsu FUTRO S930 using #Debian, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #OmniOS in the context of a #HomeLab.

Enjoy! #SelfHost #SelfHosting #RunBSD

https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/tinkering-with-fujitsu-futro-s930/

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

EuroBSDcon 2025 CFP is still open (until 2025-06-21)

Are you mulling a submission? Get yours in at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

Main conferfence site: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/

See you in Zagreb!

#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon

Hello, Puffy

#openbsd #openbsd77 #runbsd

@gumnos @justine

Isn't #qemu (in software virtualization mode) also an option for #OpenBSD?

You'd lose a fair bit of performance, but gain a lot of flexibility for other OSes.

Maybe #OpenBSD could be the best choice for my AMD mini pc desktop...maybe I should try...

#RunBSD

I'm just at the reading and thinking stage just now. Yes I know another rabbit hole my brain thinks would be a good idea to jump into. 🙄
#RunBSD

New profiling subsystem committed to -current https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250525104147 #openbsd #development #profiling #profil #security #libresoftware #freesoftware #bsd #unixlike

Finally fully switched to *BSD. #FreeBSD on my home server and #OpenBSD as a rock solid gateway, provided by the lovely @OpenBSDAms

Theo de Raadt has completed an overhaul of the gprof process profiling facility on #OpenBSD -current, the existing profil(2) system call is deprecated, with a new enhanced profil(2) interface replacing it to better work with privsep programs with current mitigations.

It is no longer possible to startup profiling manually with monstartup(3), it's now only possible via the -pg compiler flag.

deraadt@ modified src/lib/csu/crt0.c: As a first step in making the gprof profiling subsystem compatible with all of our privsep work, add an ELF note to gcrt0, this means we know which binaries have been compiled with -pg.
ok kettenis

deraadt@ modified src/*: In the old gprof profiling subsystem, the simplistic profil() syscall told the kernel about the sample buffer, and then the normal exit-time
_mcleanup() would finalize the buffer, open()'ed a file and write out the details. This file opening has become increasingly impossible because of our privsep / privdrop, chroot, setresuid uid-dropping, pledge, unveil, and other efforts. So people stopped using gprof.
Programs which needed profiling needed substantial mitigation removal changes to put them under test.

In the new gprof profiling subsystem, profil() is enhanced to provide more buffer information to the kernel, as well as better instructions for where the file should be written. At normal exit-time mcleanup(), after finalizing the buffer, the process simply terminates via _exit(2), and the kernel does all the opening and writing in a safe way. The file is now deposited into the starting directory, or into PROFDIR as determined at program start, with safety issues taken into consideration.

Additional side effects:

• The monstartup(3) interface will go away, it cannot be supported.
• profil() is now allowed in pledge "stdio", access is decided by the -pg ELF note
• gmon.out is renamed to gmon.progname.pid.out, due to pervasive multi-processprivsep practices

prompted originally by job and claudio for use in rpki-client and bgpd
advice from kettenis and claudio

Sigh. No more Home Assistant on OpenBSD. The developers have announced the deprecation of core and supervised installs.

Oh well. Going to flash Home Assistant OS on a mini PC and migrate to that.

#HomeAssistant #OpenBSD #Home #Automation

PROGRESS!! Hopefully going to boot #OpenBSD on the 1st gen Apple TV soon. Custom bootlogo by the inimitable @prahou

#RunBSD

Quick but solid overview of how well #OpenBSD handles disk I/O

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/fio_simple_benckmarking/

Some of the best things in life are free, such as #openbsd

Case in point: "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html #opensource #libresoftware #networking #security #sanecomputing #sovereigntech

#fuzix is now running on real hardware (pico/rp2040) for me.. and it's connected to #openbsd over usb: minicom -D /dev/ttyU0

sirens

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #comic #film #openblade

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Film reel frame of Girl and Puffy and Sun. All are smiling.

What desktop environment are you running on #OpenBSD? And if you're running a wm instead, which one and what tools do you use it with? I have been switching back and forth between GNOME and XFCE4 a lot. Even booted some Linux distros to test COSMIC and Cinnamon.

UPDATE If I run xhost + and then doas libreoffice it runs up perfectly !
Why is that #OpenBSD folk that I cannot run #LibreOffice as a normal user under Xorg ???

I might be being dumb just now ? But I've got my #OpenBSD desktop setup just nice with OpenBox and Xterm plus Qutebrowser. I decided to install libreoffice and it installed as it should but when I try to run it in the terminal I get the following error. Please help ❤️

 ~  $ libreoffice
/usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display:
   Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
   or check permissions of your X-Server
   (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)

I feel the need... the need to buy another $200 #thinkpad. XD

P.S., X390 Yoga. Looking forward to having a convertible as my daily-driver again.

(I still use my X200t, but the wacom input doesn't work in #OpenBSD)

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.

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=8379

xterm*faceName: Go Mono Nerd Font Mono
xterm*renderFont: true
xterm*faceSize: 10

#OpenBSD -current now has a watch(1) utility in base, using IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan)'s iwatch command as a basis.

job@ modified src/usr.bin/watch/watch.{1,c}: Verbatim import of IIJ's iwatch as watch

The watch utility periodically executes a command and displays its output.

v1.0.4 from https://github.com/iij/iwatch
https://eng-blog.iij.ad.jp/archives/230

OK yasuoka@ florian@

I've been a customer of @OpenBSDAms for a few years now. Every now and then I used to get an email that they upgraded the #OpenBSD version, but I never got around to upgrading my VM.

With the latest upgrade they upgraded to OpenBSD 7.7, but my VM was on 7.0.

Being several years behind made me anxious. I started wondering if I needed to provision a new VM, and move all my stuff to it.

But, then I felt I could try upgrading. Took a backup of all my files.

I was able to upgrade from.
7.0 -> 7.1 (reboot)
7.1 -> 7.2 (reboot)
7.2 -> 7.3 (reboot)
7.3 -> 7.4 (reboot)
7.4 -> 7.5 (reboot)
7.5 -> 7.6 (reboot)
7.6 -> 7.7 (reboot)

Now, I am on the latest version. If this seamless 7-upgrade is not an absolute master class in software engineering, I don't know what is. OpenBSD developers, take a bow! 🙇🏽‍♂️

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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listen to Grandpa.

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #Tribblix #Solarish

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

mpd radio

How to stream and listen to music across the network.

https://nein.triapul.cz/openbsd/mpd/radio/

#openbsd #mpd #audio #linux #serpico #tutorial

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Ema struggles with mpd configuration

fishriotwm

twm configuration with plan9's rio window-border operations and default cwm keybindings

(It's basically cwm that you can also use with just a mouse)

https://nein.triapul.cz/openbsd/twm/

#openbsd #rio #twm #cwm #serpico

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screenshot of a window manager twm with an open xterm and various random programs iconified

I 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

Hope my fellow #OpenBSD developers have an amazing time in Nara, Japan this week at the #j2k25 #hackathon! ​ 🐡

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OpenBSD hackathon 奈良 (Nara) 2025/05/18-25

@justine

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.

@Tionisla

“Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.”

– Theo de Raadt

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

export TERM=wsvt25

You might have to logout or reboot for it to work though.

Decided to boot into the Windows 11 SSD of my Evoo laptop which is the one that primarily runs #OpenBSD so that I could update it. It had been a while since I'd booted into it, so much so that even Firefox was at version 129 and LibreOffice was still numbered as 7.5. After an entire morning of Windows itself updating, I updated the apps I could from work. Steam may have to wait until I get home.

I'm still waiting on some post-24H2 updates to finish, and then I can boot back into the sanity of my OpenBSD SSD. ​​ #RunBSD #BSD

FUZIX now running on real hardware (pico/rp2040) for me - it is connected to my #openbsd over usb: minicom -D /dev/ttyU0

Has somebody been able to compile gurk-rs on #OpenBSD lately?

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"

Wow, very damning mail from Ingo Schwarze to #OpenBSD tech@ about upstream regressions in xterm(1), which apparently has no public version control. ​

So i think given your research results which i'm leaving in place below. we have positive proof that upstream deliberately and systematically ruined the security features of xterm(1), even those that have been - and still are - documented on their own website.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=174725089826233&w=2

@justine

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.

I need help ! :D

https://openports.pl/cat/wayland

@stefano I have to use an Apple M1 Pro (2021 model) for $dayjob. I'm frustrated that I can't run a tiling wm on it. I guess I could try to put #OpenBSD on it, but it's technically not my machine so just stuck with MacOS.

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

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.

I got asked if I could create a #howto for creating a (public) #NAT64 service - just like I did recently for #BoxyBSD. With #DNS64 and #NAT64 you can also reach resource in the legacy internet (#IPv4) on #IPv6 only systems.

While this is based on #unbound and #tayga, there’s also a solution by using the #OpenBSD's native way which is also running on the other gateway. I’ll share a second how to how to do this in OpenBSD and pf.

https://gyptazy.com/howto-create-a-public-dns64-nat64-gateway/

**BSD Mail Project Update!**

Hello everyone! I wanted to share some exciting updates about the development of BSD Mail, our privacy-focused email service designed with robustness, security, and transparency in mind. Here’s a deep dive into the technical choices I've made, focusing on my use of open source solutions and open protocols:

🌍 **Servers & Location**

- We're running on two physical servers:
- One hosted by OVH in France
- Another by Hetzner in Germany
- Both servers operate on FreeBSD with NVMe drives in a ZFS mirror configuration for speed and data integrity.

🔒 **Virtualization & Security**

- We utilize jails on both servers to ensure isolated environments for different services, managed via BastilleBSD. On one server, jails are set up directly on the hardware, whereas the other server employs nested jails.
- Each server hosts a bhyve VM running OpenBSD with OpenSMTPD for handling SMTP duties securely.

🔗 **Networking**

- A Wireguard setup connects the two servers, facilitating routing capabilities so that jails and VMs can communicate seamlessly, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6.

📧 **Email Services**

- **Dovecot** is configured for maildir replication across the servers using Dovecot sync, ensuring email availability and redundancy.
- **Rspamd** instances are tied to local KeyDB jails, set up in master-master replication for consistent and reliable spam detection and greylisting.
- **ClamAV** runs in corresponding jails for virus scanning, maintaining a high level of security.
- **SOGo** provides a web interface for email management, connected to MySQL databases in master-master replication to handle sessions and authentication smoothly.

💾 **Data Management**

- Email data is stored on separate, encrypted ZFS datasets to secure emails at rest.
- MySQL databases are used for storing credentials and managing sessions for SOGo, also in a master-master replication setup. Importantly, all passwords are securely hashed using bcrypt, ensuring they are salted and safe.

🔎 **Monitoring & Reliability**

- Our DNS is managed through BunnyNet, which continuously monitors our server status. Should one server—or a specific service—become unavailable, DNS configurations are dynamically adjusted to avoid directing users to the affected IP until full service is restored.

🌐 **Commitment to Open Source and Open Protocols**

- Every component of BSD Mail is built exclusively using open source software and open protocols. This commitment is crucial for ensuring data freedom and the reliability of the solutions we use.

This setup not only emphasizes our commitment to privacy and security but also our dedication to maintaining an open and transparent platform.
We're excited to bring you a service where your privacy, data integrity, and freedom are prioritized. Stay tuned for more updates!

#BSDMail #OpenSource #Privacy #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #EmailHosting #Email

It's official: the new email hosting service I'll be launching will run on OpenBSD as well. The two OpenSMTPD SMTP servers will operate on two OpenBSD installations.

#EmailHosting #Email #OpenBSD #OpenSMTPD

Sharing some technical details about how I'm setting up the hosted email service. It will not be a service of BSD Cafe but tied to my own business. It will run entirely on BSD systems and on bare metal, NOT on "cloud" VPS. It will use FreeBSD jails or OpenBSD or NetBSD VMs (but on bhyve, on a leased server - I do not want user data to be stored on disks managed by others). The services (opensmtpd and rspamd, dovecot, redis, mysql, etc.) will run on separate jails/VMs, so compromising one service will NOT put the others at risk. Emails will be stored on encrypted ZFS datasets - so all emails are encrypted at rest - and only dovecot will have access to the mail datasets. I'm also considering the possibility of encrypting individual emails with the user's login password - but I still have to thoroughly test this. The setup will be fully redundant (double mx for SMTP, a domain for external IMAP access that will be managed through smart DNS - which will distribute the connections on the DNS side and, in case of a server down, will stop resolving its IP, sending all the connections to the other. Obviously, everything will be accessible in both ipv4 and ipv6 and in two different European countries, on two different providers. Synchronization will occur through dovecot's native sync (extremely stable and tested). All technical choices will be clearly explained - the goal of this service is to provide maximum transparency to users on how things will be handled.

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #emailHosting #encryption #ZFS #dovecot #opensmtpd #rspamd #emailSecurity #techTransparency #ipv6 #Europe

#OpenBSD may introduces Word into the base system

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170742832804260&w=2

Running #wayland compositor #sway on #OpenBSD is very easy (only -current at the moment)

- pkg_add sway
- stop xenodm
- log-in as your user in a tty
- run /usr/local/bin/startsway.sh

that's all

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Screenshot of an OpenBSD desktop running the wayland compositor sway