#openbsd
@topher I've gone that route on #OpenBSD with the #fvwm window manager in the past, but these days I let #GNOME take the wheel.
I'm running a LOT of Flatpaks on this Debian system because the standard-size 30GB root partition ran out of room. I went to --user Flatpaks to get all of that bloat out of / and into /home. My next #Debian install will not have separate /home -- it's been more trouble than it's worth. Unless I can figure out Encrypted LVM with a bigger /
You've both made a rather large and quite amusing assumption, there, though.
I'm doing this with tooling invented by DJB in the 1990s, on OpenBSD 5.
I can _easily_ outdo _both_ of you on the not using systemd or Linux front. (-:
But I didn't mention that until now because this isn't about that. This is about the several suggestions in this thread to start using logrotate, which was bettered long before systemd was even thought of.
#MikroTik to #OpenBSD migration: I went crazy for hours thinking I had problems with rad or firewall on ipv6, but it was actually the MikroTik switch that, for some reason and even though it was correctly configured, wasn't routing #ipv6 traffic. I solved it by resetting it and importing an export.rsc. Now everything seems to be working fine.
Day 2 of my posting adventures to finally figure out what is going on with my build of #libuhd #libusb on #openbsd :openbsd:
https://sourceforge.net/p/libusb/mailman/message/37796867/
:boost_ok: boosts would be v helpful in case anyone has seen something like this before, esp from bsd folks or sdr folks #ham #sdr #bsd
🔐 💻 #OpenBSD laptop with Full Disk Encryption
https://www.tumfatig.net/2019/openbsd-laptop-with-full-disk-encryption/
This is how my #ThinkPad X230i gets encrypted and won’t boot without the proper USB thumb drive plugged in.
¹ https://mro.name/aszsd9a
Interesting tutorial on how to set up a (simple but effective) e-mail server on #OpenBSD by @joel
https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/self-hosted-email-services-on-openbsd/
#OpenBSD/arm64 now supports branch target protection in the kernel using the BTI (Branch Target Identification) instruction, which is currently supported on the Apple M2.
kettenis@ modified sys/arch/arm64: Implement branch target protection using the branch target identification feature introduced in Armv8.5. This provides "head-CFI" to complement the "tail-CFI" provided by retguard. Unfortunately most arm64 machines don't support this feature yet. But Apple M2 does support it and it seems to work there.
Learning to adapt my workflow to the BSDs has given me some of this fun feeling back, and also playing with #uxn, the not-quite-retro #permacomputing 16-bit virtual machine and assembler.
I stayed up until 6am configuring #OpenBSD on my old #stinkpad a couple nights in a row a few months ago 😅
#BSD gives me the feeling of using old Sun workstations 30 years ago (but modern).
uxn gives me the feeling of late 8-bit and early 16-bit home micros.
@simondassow @aep we “just” use what a excellent group of people are building and maintaining. 🫶🏻 #OpenBSD #RUNBSD
Synthetic Memory Protections https://www.openbsd.org/papers/csw2023.pdf #pdf #security #openbsd
Synthetic Memory Protections https://www.openbsd.org/papers/csw2023.pdf | https://lobste.rs/s/sylfum #openbsd #pdf #security
Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest: Synthetic Memory Protections https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230325163416 #openbsd #security #rop #mimmutable #aslr #stacksmash #heapsmash
Gonna power off my #RaspberryPi with #FreeBSD for a while, but for a noble purpose: I'm off to try arm64 #OpenBSD in it for the first time! Who knows, maybe BSD in general plays better than Linux in the Pi after all?
See you around and wish me luck!
Video for Theo de Raadt's CanSecWest 2023 presentation: "Synthetic Memory Protections - Beyond R, W, and X" was posted over on :birdsite:!
#openbsd #vmm #freebsd #alpine
I'm installing an alpine vm in OpenBSD vmm and it's very fun. I downloaded a FreeBSD qcow2 image to run next.
It't too easy so far, but I haven't gotten to networking yet. The alpine installer seems to have gotten a dhcp address so VMM on OpenBSD must provide that by default.
@dekkzz76
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/editors/emacs/
; see here for the patches and the Makefile for noX11 flavor. #openbsd #emacs
(I use emacs in non-X environments as well, so to get a conserved experience I leave it as the noX11 flavor everywhere and just use feh or mpv myself for images.)
#bhyvecon Tokyo 2023 speakers include:
Dave Voutila
Elena Mihailescu
Sergiu Weisz
We welcome your submissions and sponsorships!
#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #Virtualization #Containers
@pluralistic I'd consider majordomo, with subscription only possible by email - that is what #openbsd project is doing, I think.
https://www.mj2.org/
I absolutely love Unix and OpenSSH.
I have a pentesting server embedded at a customer network, but needed to update before testing.
1. Did locally, ssh server -D 8100 - creates a socks server at my work station
2. then another terminal ssh into server deep into network, with -R 8100, reverse port forward
3. asked apt nicely to use 127.0.0.1:8100 as a socks proxy for apt
Violá apt updates on a server that cannot reach the internet or much else.
#borgbackup 1.2.4 was just released, see there:
OpenBGPD 7.9 released https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230323152353 #openbsd #openbgpd #bgp #routing
@qbit how does it work with #openbsd? I bought #StarLabs StarLite but firmware has broken power management. I did consider #framework but reviews of prev generation were so-so.
No, in IT 'it must be done this way' shouldn't exist
https://my-notes.dragas.net/posts/2023/no-in-it-it-must-be-done-should-not-exist/
#IT #SysAdmin #Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Tech #Technology
@gabrielesvelto uuuh, please promise us that it doesn't clash with new security features in #openbsd
Issue #13 of the #OpenBSD Webzine is available in
English
French
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
If you want to translate in another language, please contact me :flan_thumbs:
Have I mentioned that pkg in #FreeBSD is about a bazillion times faster than pkg_* in #OpenBSD?*
Not hating on obsd, it's a sweet OS. But man... up to 45 minutes or so to update all packages. Yowsa.
pkg on fbsd is about as fast as apt. It's no pacman, but it definitely gets the job done. ;)
*At least on my hardware. The security mitigations on this old Core 2 Duo made obsd crawl unreasonably slowly
Got my first commit in #openbsd https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=167947380425462&w=2 🎉 🥳
The @eurobsdcon 2023 submissions period runs until May 26, 2023. See https://2023.eurobsdcon.org/call-for-papers-is-now-open/ for further details #eurobsdcon #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #bsd #coimbra #portugal #freesoftware
Launch OpenBSD vmd Guests on Demand from SSH https://jonwillia.ms/2023/03/20/vmctl-ssh | https://lobste.rs/s/ozsdjz #openbsd #virtualization
I might try #NeoVim on #FreeBSD, then, because vim's clipboard is acting weird there.
Oh, that's where I ended up on my X200t. I tried #NetBSD for a little while, and while I liked it (it reminded me a bit of #OpenBSD for obvious historical reasons), I had too many problems with it on my hardware, and the lack of FDE (and the fiddliness of the workaround) was a bummer. Still, definitely an OS to try again, mad props to the devs.
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Le numéro 13 du webzine #openbsd a été traduite en français : https://webzine.puffy.cafe/fr_issue-13.html
OpenBSD webzine issue #13 https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-13.html | https://lobste.rs/s/gebjwz #openbsd
Nice to see!
#DragonFlyBSD #HAMMER2 file system has just been ported to #OpenBSD (read-only support) thanks to Tomohiro Kusumi (tkusumi) who also made the ports to #FreeBSD and #NetBSD
It currently compiles and has been tested with #OpenBSD_7_2
Announcement, instructions and details on the link below
Have fun!
(Even more) Aggressive randomisation of stack location http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230319230523 | https://lobste.rs/s/xcupui #openbsd
After some testing in snapshots, Mark Kettenis' has committed an improvement for userland stack randomization on 64-bit platforms, just in time for #OpenBSD 7.3 release! :flan_thumbs:
kettenis@ modified sys: Aggressively randomize the location of the stack on all 64-bit architectures except alpha. This will put the stack at a random location in the upper 1/4th of the userland virtual address space providing up to 26 additional bits of randomness in the address. Skip alpha for now since it currently puts the stack at a (for a 64-bit architecture) very low address. Skip 32-bit architectures for now as well since those have a much smaller virtual address space and we need more time to figure out what a safe amount of extra randomizations is. These architectures will continue to use a mildly randomized stack address through the existing stackgap random mechanism. We will revisit this after 7.3 is released.
This should make it harder for an attacker to find the stack.
ok deraadt@, miod@
Right. #OpenBSD has optional FDE, and it might even become an easy to use installer option in 7.3
#NetBSD doesn't yet. People have figure out how to have everything but /boot encrypted, but it's still a bit hacky.
Not knocking NetBSD, though. These are all small projects, and the things that they CAN do far outweigh what they can't.
OpenSSH 9.3/9.3p1 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230316040613 #openbsd #openssh #ssh
EuroBSDCon 2023 (Coimbra, Portugal September 14-17) Call for participation: Submission to open soon https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=167886950524068&w=2 #eurobsdcon #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd
Website[1] and mailing list for the Portable C Compiler #pcc has been down for a couple of weeks. Does anyone know what happened to the project?
I've emailed Ragge (the maintainer), but not got a reply for a while. That's ok, maintainers have a life. I just want to offer my help. Does anyone know if Ragge is online elsewhere, e.g. Fediverse or IRC?
I think Ragge is also a #NetBSD VAX port maintainer.
Boosts are welcome 🙂
https://web.archive.org/web/20230222204133/http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/
@tdarb I can only encourage you to make the switch to #openbsd - I have never looked back since I did.
Btw, I really like your website https://bt.ht/ - beautifully simple and elegant!
@amoroso @masinter hey, can I check why maiko doesn't have bin/makefile-init-openbsd.x86_64 ?
Simply change /usr/local/ to /usr/X11R6/ [] from bin/makefile-init-freebsd.x86_64 worked fine.
This was necessary for maiko makeright to build ldeinit, which is a requirement for medley/scripts/loadup-all.sh
(tested n=1 openbsd amd64)
#interlisp #building #maiko #medley #lisp #openbsd
So far I have run
> (1+ 1)
;p very excited for this environment and to actually be @amoroso 's peer!
Doing some #openbsd stuff :flan_hacker: :flan_hacker:
Man pages are so nice, I forgot about how to use a program, I found the man page quite easily and I got accurate information in less than 10 seconds, without leaving my terminal. :flan_shrug:
OpenBSD -current is now 7.3-beta https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230304200043 #openbsd #7.3-beta
On the basis of the artwork alone every #ActuallyAutistic should be running #OpenBSD; on the basis of #Lojban being gorgeously syntactically unambiguous (being based on predicate #logic) #AutisticLojban should be our project. @actuallyautistic
Late #introduction.
Love #MechanicalKeyboards, #FountainPens and other #stationery.
Lots of #gaming. I play #Destiny2, #SlayTheSpire, #OverWatch, and others.
I work in #infosec for a small ISP.
I've been managing #Linux information systems professionally for over 20 years.
My #HomeLab is rapidly making a shift toward fully adopting #OpenBSD because it's just so sensible.
I'm pretty easy going as long as you're not a fascist or bigot.. in which case you're welcome to fuck right off.
#openbsd #signify #sha512 #video #shell #example
https://forth.noip.me:8443/w/tbHRyGBnkDyg9B54qacEoR
I'm an addict! Aside from putting absolute paths in my manifest, did I do ok [openbsd sysadmin friends] ? @solene @claudiom at lots-of-people-I-missed
@ldbeth @mhcat @trurl @svetlyak40wt @galdor how does everyone sign their [lisp] projects? What's your flow?
I'm now a video addict
nl&I,now!
Despite all evidence to the contrary I am still alive this week! Hope to see you at the #lisp y #gopher show on #aNONradio powered by @SDF@social.sdf.org @SDF in XXX. Lisp-wise, since #sbcl is what's available at the institute, we'll talk about #sbcl on #openbsd and also #asdf on sbcl (system definition soft link farms). gopher-wise... I'll rebuild from the ashes a bit until the show starts.
Musically we'll play a little Little By Little which was released free by middle-aged Harvey Danger (Flagpole-
This is a PCChips M216A(1) motherboard, originally with a 20MHz(!) #286 CPU.
Plop in a Make-It-486(2), consisting of a TI TX486SLC CPU, a Cyrix Cx87SLC FPU, and some supporting chips - and you have a marvellously horribly uselessly slow #486 PC!
It runs so hot I had to add a heat sink and a fan. And since the motherboard has no fan power, but also no FPU (since the upgrade contains one), I pulled ground and +5V from the 80287 socket :D
Once I find a 286 motherboard with a socketed CPU which can support a full 16MB RAM I'll transplant this one and attempt to run the latest #OpenBSD or #NetBSD on it. For now I'll settle for #DOS and #OpenCubicPlayer and other fun stuff.
#retropc #retrohardware #retrocomputing #midlifecrisis
1) https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcchips-m216a
2) https://www.cpushack.com/2014/08/30/improve-technologies-make-it-486-286-upgrade/
Just pulled up my circa-late-2007 wordpress dot com blog on vanilla chromium on #OpenBSD and OH MY GOD THE ADS ARE SO HORRENDOUS!!
Starting to seriously love #Qutebrowser.
I just wish I could install it on #OpenBSD without a *gigabyte* of dependencies*. :sad:
* Including PulseAudio, of all things. Hey, I'm using BSD to get *away* from Lennart!! lol
(PulseAudio is fine, though. I just don't see a need for it on BSD)
cc: @benjaminhollon
Reminds me of when I initially got lost down the #OpenBSD rabbit hole.
I got VERY little sleep for DAYS. :blobcatderpy:
Isn't nano just nano-emacs? Or are the keybinds different?
You know what's funny is everyone complains about exiting vi, I tried it once on #OpenBSD to use mg (http://man.openbsd.org/mg), and I couldn't exit it XD
Hello Filippo,
do you know if there is already a interface (planned?) to check the x86/arm64
MRS/DIT register state via golang/syscall to mitigate within golang/crypto
or at least on application layer on demand? (at least for the *BSDs I found none)
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YwgCrqutxmX0W72r@gmail.com/T/#u
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230125012801.362496-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/
Thank you,
Michael
#OpenBSD developer @phessler just committed the addition of The Atkinson Hyperlegible font into OpenBSD ports tree
https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
It's made to be the most readable possible, there is a nice PDF explaining how they did https://brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BIA_AtkinsonHyerlegible-Specimen_200210.pdf
Tonight I'm fixing a bug in #Firefox WebMIDI implementation that was reported by the #OpenBSD maintainer that also affected all other Unix platforms that aren't Linux. Sending positive vibes to all our non-tier-1 platforms, we love you all #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #OpenIndiana etc... I'm sure I missed some.
sshd random relinking at boot https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230119075627 | https://lobste.rs/s/zv3hmn #openbsd #security