WPA3 support coming to OpenBSD https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260719093851 #openbsd #networking #wifi #wpa3 #wpa #wireless #development #freesoftware #libresoftware

WPA3 support coming to OpenBSD #openbsd
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260719093851

sys-upgrading...

#OpenBSD

BSDs update day 🙃

FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1

NetBSD 11.0 RC6

OpenBSD 8.0 Beta Snapshot

#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #screenshot #UNIX

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Left: tmux session with bash and fastfetch on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 Middle: tmux session with bash and fastfetch on NetBSD 11.0 RC6 Right: tmux session with bash and fastfetch on OpenBSD 8.0 Beta Snapshot

@poes @fionescu WireGuard is just another interface type on #OpenBSD - not an app. Nothing to start or stop or install.

I’ll have a look at my config and get back to you.

@fionescu

On #FreeBSD I usually add wireguard to the REQUIRED line in the unbound rc script so wireguard starts first.
But on #OpenBSD you can just order services in rc.conf so wireguard runs before unbound.

CMIIW

Ooh, looks like constant exposure to the mine, well-formed and curated, Fedi timeline — finally led me to the cwm
The best window manager is non-existing window manager: no window decorations, hotkeys managed by the sxhkd, menus managed by rofi, nice effects managed by picom; simple X applications to display some necessary info: xclock for time, xbatt for battery info, gkrellm for some system stats.

The more time passed, the more my FreeBSD installation reminds OpenBSD, lol. Doas for privileges elevation, cwm as a window manager, got instead of git, etc

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #minimalism #cwm

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Screenshot of my FreeBSD desktop. There are cwm window manager with Adine (from AWSW) at the wallpaper. On the left upper corner there is a gkrellm, displaying some CPU, network interfaces and memory stats; it uses Operational theme. On the right upper corner there is an xterm window with some top output and command to restart Emacs daemon. On the right bottom corner there is a xclock and xbatt windows.

#borgbackup 1.4.5 was just released!

Some fixes, including a low severity security fix, some new features, some other changes.

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.5

#linux #FreeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #macos #omniOS

Things are probably still propagating over to the new server, but I am officially hosting my blog locally via #OpenBSD on my HP T630

Wrote about setting up the process here:

"Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD"

https://btxx.org/posts/self-hosted-openbsd/

(I also have some basic details on my infrastructure page https://btxx.org/infra/)

Using the fact that my family are all away this weekend to upgrade my #openBSD router/firewall.

#F1 quali has finished so loosing internet for a few minutes won’t hurt anyone.

I’m not one for “the little shop” at tourist attractions, but a trip to the Międzyzdroje oceanarium yielded this little porcupine fish, matching the one in handle here, and obvious symbolising my love and respect for #OpenBSD and the community that nurtures it.

Look out for it in video conferences and interviews ;-)

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A stuffed toy representing the porcupine fish, an ocean dwelling member of the broader order that includes all puffer fish. It matches the emoji for the puffer fish (with a orangey-brown upper and white belly, and retracted spines). It’s sitting on a pine wood table, with a book, notebook and eraser visible behind it. The use of the pufferfish “puffy” as a logo for OpenBSD is well established.

TIL if you want HTTP header manipulation (like adding one) on #OpenBSD use of relayd(8) is required

I have published my initial #OpenBSD #WPA3 implementation.

Thanks to @nlnet for supporting this effort.

Cc @vanhoefm

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178437520390575&w=2

Nown trying to move my webserver to httpd. Unfortunately, relayd does not support ecdsa tls certificates.

Also I have a challenge with connecting to wordpress, I don't know what is the trouble.

#openbsd

I will have an opportunity of testing my #OpenBSD disaster recovery plan.

I decided to install #FreeBSD on my laptop to try 15.1 on a bare metal. Since currently I have no spare USB disk I decided to wipe my OpenBSD partition and install FreeBSD on it. What the heck ! I have my bootable backup just in case, right ? We'll see...

I thought that maybe if 15.1 has drm-612-kmod then my Meteorlake laptop is supported. Well, I was wrong.

First it took me 2 days to even make drm-612-kmod kind of work. Then after some good people helped me it turns out that gpu driver likes to hang from time to time. Sometimes right after you start X, sometimes after an hour or two. Honestly I'm super disappointed.

Overall FreeBSD feels super snappy (when it works) but reliability for me is on the ground level.

Now restoring OpenBSD from my backup. I hope it works as expected.
Will report.

I promissed to report so here I am.

It worked. And I must say it is super handy to have such bootable backup disk. You don't need to download any rescue or install images - because you have your own OS image in the drawer.

The only obstacle is that now I have to do "set device sr0a" on the bootloader command line every time I boot. I guess it can be fixed somehow.

But here I am - back from my restored #OpenBSD install. With all my data files in place.

Soooo cool.

Yes! I can now use an IPv4 /32 with a default IPv6 gateway on #OpenBSD and still access the legacy Internet

Does https://mirror.leaseweb.com/pub/OpenBSD no longer work in /etc/installurl ?

#OpenBSD

🐡 OpenBSD/loongson hardware platform retired

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article%3Bsid%3D20260716110034

#openbsd #loongson #mips #opensource

@radicalabacus @nixCraft @loadhigh @faraiwe @Stefan_S_from_H @geospacedman @marcusxms

All of the major #BSD⁠s allow AI code. Even #OpenBSD. https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#operating-systems

In light of all the horror stories of vibe coders getting hacked, this seems really really really bad for security. I don't know what OS to use now.

#Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD

Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐 2026-07-16
@pitrh@mastodon.social

OpenBSD moves to 8.0-beta in -current and snapshots https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716115231 #openbsd #development #current #80beta #freesoftware #libresoftware

OpenBSD drops support for the loongson architecture

OpenBSD parts ways with an architecture: OpenBSD will no longer be developed for loongson. The reasons are exactly what you'd expect.

The last compiler update unfortunately does not work on mips64el, with clang 22 built with clang 19 being apparently functional, but clang 22 rebuilt with the previous clang 22 hitting deterministi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145532/openbsd-drops-support-for-the-loongson-architecture/

#OpenBSD

The Book of PF is an excellent book. That's all 🙂

#openbsd #freebsd

I finally have the #WPA3 SAE handshake working on #OpenBSD

media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (VHT-MCS1 mode 11ac)

status: active

ieee80211: join sae-testing chan 149 bssid 7e:8a:xx:xx:xx:xx 74% wpakey wpaprotos wpa2,wpa3 wpaakms psk,sha256-psk,sae wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp powersave on (100ms sleep)

OpenBSD/loongson hardware platform retired https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716110034 #openbsd #loongson #hardwaresupport #compilerflameout #freesoftware #libresoftware #development

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon

OpenBSD/loongson hardware platform retired #openbsd
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716110034

OpenBSD moves to 8.0-beta in -current and snapshots https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716115231 #openbsd #development #current #80beta #freesoftware #libresoftware

OpenBSD moves to 8.0-beta in -current and snapshots #openbsd
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716115231

@tinker :) No, systemd is not a thing on any of the BSDs nor will it ever be due to the Linux-isms it contains. bash is available on #OpenBSD, just not part of the base system.

FWIW, the "OpenBSD Handbook" is not a recommended resource, it contains mistakes and is very possibly LLM-generated. Use the official documentation and manpages for reference (the latter are available online if you don't yet have a system).

@0x09