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OpenBSD Amsterdam boosted

[?]fionescu(1) » 🌐
@fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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 and (probably the latter?) and what might favor a smooth transition later to an VPS (might switch from Hostinger to OpenBSD Amsterdam, though both seem to rely to some degree on bloody Cloudflare)... probably XMPP?

    [?]Bryan Steele :flan_beard: » 🌐
    @brynet@bsd.network

    7.9 release packages are now also ready for /armv7 (32-bit arm).

    marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177

      [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
      @rl_dane@polymaths.social

      @82mhz

      You know, the vinyl wrap idea even works without removing the rubber first, but it could be icky later. ;)

      My 2009-12-23-manufactured Thinkpad X200t (core 2 duo) is slowwwwly becoming vintage, but it's still terribly useful, except for the batteries.

      Even Firefox launches quickly in recent versions of #OpenBSD. It barely feels inconvenient, except when attempting to run fancy websites like v86, which fails gloriously. XD

      I even have syncthing on it, syncing up a couple dozen gigs of files and maybe 30k files. It does peg the CPU a bit from time to time, but not too bad. I have it set to poll the different directories at different times, rather than trying to keep active tabs on every file, which I think is too much for OpenBSD to handle without really tweaking with sysctl settings.

        [?]hucste » 🌐
        @hucste@lemmy.ml

        OpenBSD stories—Some Terrific Idea

        In this story, I would like to talk about something which has turned out to be both an asset and a curse.

        Attachment: http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/sti.html

        (https://lemmy.ml/c/openbsd)

        [?]Miod Vallat [he/him] » 🌐
        @miodvallat@hostux.social

        This week's story is available!

        In which we learn that hardware documentation is a good thing, but incomplete or not-enough documentation is a curse...

        miod.online.fr/software/openbs

          [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

          Copying Remote Command Output to Your macOS Clipboard

          A small trick to copy command output from a remote ssh session directly into the local macOS clipboard, using OSC 52 and a tiny shell script.

          it-notes.dragas.net/2026/05/26

            [?]YRabbit » 🌐
            @yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org

            Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

            Once I figured out which files to write to the SD card for the NanoPi R2S plus and in what order for , installing was a breeze.

            The second 1G network card is working—the very one that doesn't recognize ;)

            Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

            Alt...Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

              [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
              @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

              Been following the BSD conferences for a while and have not yet had the chance to attend one. But what i have noticed from all the videos and photo's published on social media is that it seems to be a male ( I'm going to include NB folk here too ) dominated event ? Maybe I'm wrong and it's just how the media published distorts the reality ? Apologies if I have offended anyone it certainly isn't my intention.


                [?]Maxi 12x 💉 » 🌐
                @frumble@chaos.social

                »Talking about the project image, this is devastating! No really, we use macOS while pretending to develop ? Is this a joke or what?

                I must say I find and better engineered, they work in a stable manner on the hardware they support. I was scratching my head about why (after all they are BSDs too and they, more or less, take some code from Linux, especially in the DRM department). Now I understand why!«

                phoronix.com/forums/forum/phor

                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                  The little Acer doesn't (totally) love OpenBSD 7.9:
                  - fans are always spinning fast and it's hot. I could probably try to fix it, but I have no time at the moment
                  - it doesn't suspend - and it's critical, for me

                  I haven't tried other things, except that Mate works perfectly on X and I can use the touchpad. Volume controls work, the brightness controls work. A step ahead from 7.8, but still not perfect.

                  I'll probably reinstall Void Linux on ZFS.

                    [?]bpl » 🌐
                    @bpl@snac.bsd.cafe

                    Ever wanted to test OpenBSD, but by any reason you cannot get it working in virtual machine? Or want to check hardware compliancy? Try FuguIta - https://fuguita.org/, live Fish Linux version running from USB or DVD on amd64, i386, arm64 and macppc (test). 7.9 version will come soon.


                      [?]Tionisla » 🌐
                      @Tionisla@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                      Secondary: "Tianve" - HP-250 G3
                      Operating System: OpenBSD 7.9 amd64
                      Desktop: LXQT 2.2.0
                      Windowmanager: XFWM4
                      Qt Version: 6.10.2
                      Graphics Platform: X11/xenocara

                      bsd-hardware.info/?probe=23dc2

                      Screenshot of OpenBSD running LXQT as Desktop environment Styling: Qogir-Manjaro gtk2/3/xfwm, QT theming via qt6gtk2/qt5gtk2 LXQT Panel: Graphite Icons: Qogir-Manjaro Wallpaper: Dancers by @orbite There's a panel with some pinned icons floating on the left, a qterminal running a minimal neofetch with some system stats. At the bottom is a floating panel with two desktop switcher buttons. In the bottom right corner there's an OpenBSD Pufferfish icon (https://logodix.com/logos/1867876) labeled with LXQT Desktop and its logo. Above are two badges with slogans dealing with cancer.

                      Alt...Screenshot of OpenBSD running LXQT as Desktop environment Styling: Qogir-Manjaro gtk2/3/xfwm, QT theming via qt6gtk2/qt5gtk2 LXQT Panel: Graphite Icons: Qogir-Manjaro Wallpaper: Dancers by @orbite There's a panel with some pinned icons floating on the left, a qterminal running a minimal neofetch with some system stats. At the bottom is a floating panel with two desktop switcher buttons. In the bottom right corner there's an OpenBSD Pufferfish icon (https://logodix.com/logos/1867876) labeled with LXQT Desktop and its logo. Above are two badges with slogans dealing with cancer.

                        [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                        @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                        Various #FOSS OS communities' reactions to joining them:

                        #Linux: "Hey, welcome to the fam! Here's a stack of CDs I burned, see which one boots for you."
                        #FreeBSD: "Hey, we're glad you're here! Here's an amazing handbook to get you started, holler if you need a hand!"
                        #NetBSD: "Of course it runs NetBSD! Welcome! :D"
                        #OpenBSD: "Don't expect a lot of hand-holding, but we're all having fun with it, and hopefully you will enjoy the process, too."
                        #9front: "Are... you... sure you want to do this?"

                        😆

                        (For the record, I love them all. I only regret I haven't had much of a chance to play with #Haiku, or interact with that community, yet!)

                          [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐
                          @pitrh@mastodon.social

                          The 2026 Call for Papers is still open!

                          2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

                          Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with people!

                          We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see the CFP text.

                          Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd

                          @EuroBSDCon

                            [?]vermaden » 🌐
                            @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/05/25) available.

                            vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05

                            Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                              [?]vermaden » 🌐
                              @vermaden@mastodon.social

                              Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/05/25) available.

                              vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05

                              Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                That Acer laptop sitting on a chair is shouting... "Let's try OpenBSD 7.9!"

                                Who am I to disappoint it?

                                  [?]h3artbl33d :openbsd: :antifa: [Try/Me] » 🌐
                                  @h3artbl33d@exquisite.social

                                  Thanks to the proper manpages, I was able to recover the disklabel of a 1TB SSD that I accidentally nuked moments before :flan_XD:

                                  This was all my fault - but fortunately was able to get it sorted, fast :flan_thumbs:

                                    [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                                    @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                    OK then. I have just dowmloaded the 7.9 img and done a fresh install on my desktop machine wiping everything from the past out. It boot perfectly fine on release so I proceeded to switch to my usual -current as per the docs and it ran through the upgrade without issue.
                                    Can you guess what happened when it tried to boot the /bsd kernel on this intel i5 machine ?
                                    That's right it failed with the same error 255 that the bugs mailinglist told me was an issue I had probably caused so go reinstall. I knew it wasn't me as it was extremely strange how I could rollback to the 14th May or earlier with out any issues it always booted the /bsd ( MP ) kernel but after the 14th May it would not but would boot the copy I had of the last working /bsd renamed /bsd.xyz
                                    I'm too tired to go back to the misc or bugs mailinglists to be told it's me. I know I wouldn't have got that response from the devs so maybe it is a sign from above ? :runbsd:

                                      [?]Bryan Steele :flan_beard: » 🌐
                                      @brynet@bsd.network

                                      7.9 release packages are now ready for /riscv64 and /macppc (32-bit powerpc). :flan_thumbs:​

                                      marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177

                                      32-bit arm (armv7) is the last still pending.

                                        [?]Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome: » 🌐
                                        @fosserytech@social.linux.pizza

                                        (more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

                                        Apache NetBeans 30 updates Maven and Ant, adds GlassFish 8.0 support:
                                        alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/

                                        VS Codium 1.121 Brings Packaging Fixes and Telemetry Cleanup to Your Workflow:
                                        linuxcompatible.org/story/vsco

                                        Pulsar 1.132 adds new terminal package, improved Git branch switching & large file setting:
                                        alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/

                                        Vim Text Editor Lands Opt-In GTK 4 GUI Support:
                                        linuxiac.com/vim-text-editor-l

                                        WordPress 7.0 launches with a new admin panel, editor upgrades, and an AI integrations hub:
                                        alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/

                                        Godot 4.6.3 Fixes Critical Bugs:
                                        linuxcompatible.org/story/godo

                                        nginx 1.31.1 Mainline Update Fixes Critical Rewrite Buffer Overflow and Tightens HTTP Headers:
                                        linuxcompatible.org/story/ngin

                                        PHP 8.4.22 Release Candidate Fixes JIT Crashes and Memory Leaks Before Stable Launch:
                                        linuxcompatible.org/story/php-

                                        Node.js 24.16.0 LTS Update Fixes Crypto Quirks and Adds Better Debugging Tools:
                                        linuxcompatible.org/story/node

                                        Node.js 26.2.0 Release Brings Stream Stability, HTTP 1xx Support, and Crypto Hardening:
                                        linuxcompatible.org/story/node

                                        Deno 2.8 adds 'audit fix', new CI workflows, and npm packaging support:
                                        alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/

                                        Valkey 9.1 delivers improvements in security, performance, and more:
                                        phoronix.com/news/Valkey-9.1-R

                                        Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg:
                                        khronos.org/blog/video-encodin

                                        OpenBSD 7.9 boosts AMD64 CPU core support, adds delayed hibernation and improves scheduler:
                                        alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/

                                        FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 release candidate arrives:
                                        nerds.xyz/2025/11/freebsd-15-0

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