@lobocode

I'm not "invested" in any appreciable sense, but I use them on laptops daily, and here's my overall impression as a basic end user:

#FreeBSD: More linuxy, lots of bells and whistles, amazing pdf/html handbook
#OpenBSD: More pared down, very choosy about what gets included in base (and particularly the kernel), much easier to just install and have a working laptop vs. having to configure X11/Wayland manually, great man pages

In FreeBSD's defense, they're adding a simple KDE install option to the installer system, so you'll have something of a ready-to-go system, if KDE is what you want. I'm not sure if there will be a simpler option, like openbox or whatever.

OpenBSD seems to have a little better hardware support, but FreeBSD has been making great strides in this area, and if you have a recent model Thinkpad or Framework, you might have a better time on FreeBSD.

My FreeBSD and OpenBSD laptops are 10 and 16 years old, respectively. 😅

They're both great OSes, and fun to learn on. It's a real #Yoda "You must unlearn what you have learned" moment when you realize that everything you've done for the past quarter century of writing shell scripts and whatnot was very much geared to the GNU and Linux world, and the rest of the world doesn't necessarily operate that way.

Of course, most Linux users don't care, but I'm partial to the idea of true portability, the Unix way. ;)

@SamuraiSakura @lobocode

...but Bluetooth itself is NOT. 😆

(also, #NetBSD has it. The story with #OpenBSD is that #tedu basically said, "BT is a horrible mess, and we don't want to maintain this code anymore" and jettisoned it from the kernel. 😄)

Hmm, still no mention of #tedu on marc.info, still no (last I heard) decision about slop in base via tmux.

Are the #OpenBSD guys ok? I don't mean this sarcastically.

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync

#github #openbsd

Finally got around to updating my script to update my #OpenBSD #pf firewall with @JulianOliver 's fantastic parasites.txt. (Apologies if you've seen a bunch of HEAD requests from me, Julian!)

If anyone's interested:

#!/bin/ksh
set -euo pipefail

cd /home/pertho
ftp -TV https://scienceispoetry.net/files/parasites.txt
sed -e '/^[^0-9]/d' parasites.txt | sed '/^$/d' | sed '$d' > parasites.new
doas /usr/bin/install -g wheel -m 0644 -o root /home/pertho/parasites.new /etc/parasites.txt
doas /sbin/pfctl -t parasites -T replace -f /etc/parasites.txt
[ -f /home/pertho/parasites.new ] && rm -f /home/pertho/parasites.new

Please, go easy on Julian's server. Don't blast it with requests. He's providing this for free. (Thank you!!!!)

I use my home directory because I need to store parasites.txt with its timestamps. OpenBSD's ftp (which does talk https) checks the timestamp to see if a newer one is available and only proceeds if there is a newer one.

/etc/doas.conf edited to allow the install and pfctl commands to run (just look in doas.conf(5) for details and use the args)

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync

#HackerNews #Openrsync #OpenBSD #rsync #filetransfer #technews #GitHub

🚀🤖 Wait, hold your terminal! The #OpenBSD team blesses us with yet another tool nobody asked for: #Openrsync, because we all clearly needed another #rsync #clone. 🙄🔧 GitHub's endless menu maze might just be more exciting than this ground-breaking (yawn) #UNIX utility remake. 😂
https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync #utilities #GitHub #HackerNews #ngated

OpenBSD 7.9: поддержка Wi-Fi 6, USB4 и 255 ядер. Основные изменения в ОС

В мае 2026 года выпустили OpenBSD 7.9. В новой версии разработчики обновили планировщик задач для гибридных процессоров, добавили механизм отложенной гибернации, подтянули графический стек и расширили поддержку современного железа, включая Wi-Fi 6, USB4 и Apple Silicon. Часть изменений касается виртуализации и энергосбережения, часть — низкоуровневых механизмов безопасности и сетевой подсистемы. Давайте разбираться, что там и как.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ru_mts/articles/1041252/

#openbsd

I must admit, I like the Green on Black #NetBSD console better than the White on Blue #OpenBSD one.

As usual, YMMV. If you do not use archaic setups and do not care about 3D graphic acceleration, you will be content with NetBSD.

Heads up! The base versions of LLVM/Clang/lld have been updated to 22.1.6 from 19.1.x in #OpenBSD -current. 🐡​

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178005264089753&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178005271889792&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178005276789832&w=2

EDIT: robert@'s commit msgs accidentally say 21.1.6, but it's actually 22.1.6. ​

This #GoToSocial instance has been migrated from #OpenBSD 7.8/arm64 to OpenBSD 7.9/amd64/bhyve.

➡️ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ 🙌

If you can read this, I didn’t mess up 😅

Nothing wrong with running it on the ODROID, I just wanted it back to a DC.

@cerement

There's also #OpenBSD's mg, ever try that?

Good news for Apple T2 Mac owners, joshua stein (jcs@) has committed a fix to #OpenBSD -current for the T2 NVMe controller found on later Intel machines.

jcs@ modified src/sys/*: use I/O submission queue entry size reported by controller

On the Apple T2 NVMe, 128-byte submission queue entries on I/O queues are required instead of the standard 64 bytes.

ok jmatthew

​

This gets NVMe working on the 2018 Mac Mini.

Even more random redoing the sysupgrade -s and it passes straight away and upgrades. Does it boot the /bsd ? No it does not only boot.rd and boot.sp boot.

Alt...

a photo showing my Dell Optiplex 3080 i5-10505 tower with the latest snapshot failing to verify on download.

Doing things on the remote-homelab. So far, I can watch #YouTube videos without Ads.

#FreeBSD #bhyve #OpenBSD #relayd #AlpineLinux #Invidious

Alt...

A hand made diagram displaying a basic IT architecture based on FreeBSD bhyve. Two VM (one OpenBSD, one Alpine Linux) are deployed and connected in such a way that a user goes through relayd to display video from Invidious.

🐡 OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge

｢ It has its own X11 server, Xenocara, based on X.org 7.7 and Xserver 21.1.21, but you can also run XLibre with some manual effort, and some desktops support Wayland. There is also a downstream project to build a live bootable medium called FuguIta, although it hasn't caught up with the new release just yet ｣
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/25/openbsd-79-arrives-a-diamond-in-the-rough-proud-of-every-sharp-edge/5244877

#openbsd #bsd #unix #x11

LibreSSL 4.3.2 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260527055600 #openbsd #libressl #ssl #tls #security #development #programming #web #cryptography #crypto #realcrypto #ibresoftware #freesoftware

Run your own decentralized social platform on shared hosting or a tiny VPS WITHOUT Redis, PostgreSQL, or complex infrastructure.

What it makes so special to me? It looks awesome, comes with a great admin web interface and does not require a VPS instance where it can also be operated on a cheap shared hosting systems. By the given requirements, it also easily runs on a #RaspberryPI and all kind of systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Illumos and more!

This all makes it perfect to everyone and even beginners to run their own instance. With relay support (e.g., fedi-relay.gyptazy.com) it even can consume and post content over non-directly connected instances in the #fediworld!

Kudos to the author of Starling: @df@s.dfaria.eu

More information:
GitHub project: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling
My blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/starling-simple-fediverse-server/

#fedi #fediwall #opensource #decentralized #social #socialmedia #alternatives #mastodon

Alt...

Starling as a Fediverse/ActivityPub Server

LibreSSL 4.3.2 released #openbsd
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260527055600

One thing I have been pondering about Wayland on #OpenBSD is, did it get the "xenocara treatment"? Does Wayland come with the same level of hardening on OpenBSD or was it not needed? How secure is Wayland by design and does it fit in the OpenBSD ecosystem?

Some red devil and yellow fish are now secretly talking to each through a #WireGuard tunnel on the Internet. Glad it is not that complicated to setup and works OOTB.

My notes are there: https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/connect-freebsd-to-openbsd-using-wireguard/

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RunBSD

Interestingly, #FreeBSD comes with #nvi2 in base, while #OpenBSD and #NetBSD seem to be running #nvi 1:

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
~
~
~
Version 2.2.2 (2025-10-08) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

OpenBSD 7.3
(7.9 is still running the same version)
~
~
~
Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

NetBSD 10.1
~
~
~
Version (1.81.6-2013-11-20nb4) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

They all seem to have nvi2 available as packages, though, which #Debian, oddly, does not.

rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search nvi |grep '^nvi2'
nvi2-2.2.2                     Updated implementation of the ex/vi text editor
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

#(searching openbsd online)
rld@Intrepid:~$ searchall -o nvi |grep ^nvi
nvi-2.2.2                (list)   with wide         and files limited by
nvi-2.2.2-iconv          (list)   with wide         and files limited by

rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ uname -sr
NetBSD 10.1
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ pkgin search nvi |grep ^nvi |grep -v nvidia
nvi-1.81.6nb13       Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n-1.79.20040608nb11  Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2-2.2.0           Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ 

~ $ head -1 /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
~ $ apt-cache search nvi |grep -E '^nvi2? '
nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
~ $ 

The author went the extra mile and had some kind words to write about OpenBSD's OpenRsync as well:

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-05-24-minimal-memory-safe-go-rsync-vulns/#openrsync

Ironically, I saw this not long after closing a Pull Request to submit an OpenRync port to MacPorts: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28096

Not that I don't still have an interest in such things, but it seems as if there are some other things going on (if I observed things correctly, it seems as if Apple maybe commissioned Klara Systems to port OpenRsync to macOS [e.g. https://github.com/KlaraSystems/openrsync]? Yet, it didn't seem as if they did so in a very collaborative spirit with the lead developer Kristaps Dzonsons?). Moreover, I didn't want to just leave that dangling when other MacPorts contributors were side-eyeing the PR as being left open for so long.

#OpenRsync #rsync #vulnerabilities #OpenSource #Security #Infosec #SecurityResearch #OpenBSD

I've warned my normie friends that I'm fed up with FB Messenger and WhatsApp and that I'm going to self-host an alternative and if they want to keep in touch with me, they have to contact me there... Now I'm left wondering what's more lightweight for my modest budget VPS between #Matrix and #XMPP (probably the latter?) and what might favor a smooth transition later to an #OpenBSD VPS (might switch from Hostinger to OpenBSD Amsterdam, though both seem to rely to some degree on bloody Cloudflare)... probably XMPP?