have you ever used #OpenBSD or #NetBSD?

My 2027 UNIX wishlist.

-NetBSD gets ZFS on root, and in the installer.
-NetBSD gets FreeBSD's jails, including VNET support.

<or>

-FreeBSD fully and finally declares a no AI policy.

As much as I like OpenBSD, neither of those things have ANY chance of making it into their source.

Also, has anyone forked a slop free tmux, yet?

#UNIX #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #BSD

Today's success in #selfhosting - gaining access to my own eBook library:

1) #OpenBSD host runs `webdav` ¹ with pf allowing local nA d tailscale connections only
2) Rooted Kobo runs #KOReader under #NickelMenu
3) Add webdav mount

¹ https://github.com/hacdias/webdav

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koreader listing pdf files

Following some naughty (not) remarks from here, I went to another gallery of the #ThinkCentre rabbit hole.

Quick and dirty look at #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD power usage on the AMD powered M715q.

#RunBSD
https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/m715q-power-usage-and-the-bsdes/

You want to run a gotd (Game of Trees) server and manage it via gotsysd, here’s a quick guide to get you started: https://rock-y.org/howto_gotd_with_gotsysd.html #got #openbsd

Today I tried to install #NetBSD 11 on an old Acer E15 laptop that I had been using as a #Debian CLI-only system.

The install was a little dicey. First one failed, but the second time I was able to go all the way through and configure WiFi on the Edimax N150 USB. I kept getting errors in the console about the BIOS (likely related to the battery, which is pretty dodgy).

X started but really didn't run. I could try messing with it, but I'll probably go to #OpenBSD next.

Doing some useless tinkering on Saturday: #OpenBSD running #CDE #Librewolf #VLC on the #ThinkCentre M715q. It's mechanical SATA disk sucks a bit when it comes to speed but this machine is pretty nice overall.

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A screenshot of the Common Desktop Environment running on OpenBSD. Various windows appear such as VLC, Terminal and Librewolf.

I think it's about time for some #OpenBSD #80HYPE ​

Clang/LLVM 22 is now OpenBSD's base compiler on clang architectures, including updated libc++{,abi}, compiler-rt & libunwind support libraries.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116658062479940402

OpenBSD/sparc64 switches to Clang by default! This was the last significant architecture to switch. This makes OpenBSD the only operating system to support sparc64 with a modern toolchain.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117130130536792528

Since 7.9, Jonathan Gray (jsg@) has continued to update the drm graphics stack (inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu) bringing OpenBSD 8.0 to Linux 6.18.y/6.18.53, adding driver support for Intel Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) cards.

Increased KVA (kernel virtual addresses) on amd64 (to 512G) now allows mapping more than 4G of VRAM (for example, GPU compute w/ Vulkan)

https://freshbsd.org/openbsd/src?q=drm&committer[]=jsg

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116794461642940154

After a ton of work in Edmonton by Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) and Dave Voutila (dv@), OpenBSD vmm/vmd(8) now supports SMP guests up to 64 VCPUs per VM! ​ 🎉​

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117295044109301163

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117299753668348206

OpenBSD 8.0 adds qwz(4), new WiFi driver for Qualcomm WCN7850 "ath12k" devices.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116574369382033904

A new driver, sambat(4), for monitoring battery status, cycle count/charge info on Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge (Snapdragon arm64) machines.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116600674574234896

Accelerated swap encryption on amd64 and arm64 by using AES CPU instructions.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117090842236460135

OpenBSD/arm64 and OpenBSD/riscv64 boards can now heartbeat blinking LEDs to show system load averages.

​ Das Blinkenlights!! ​

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116879479168132932

#OpenBSD httpd(8) now supports many new features:

• Setting custom HTTP response headers.
• New blocking/filtering rules based on received HTTP headers (e.g: User-Agent: )

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117371604463587328

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116979133275422995

See also rsadowski@'s report: https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/w2k26-edmonton-openbsd-hackathon/

.. and finally, ​

I made my first commit to #OpenSSH this release cycle!

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117007833531799959

And lots more to see in 8.0! ​​

EDIT: 8.0 is released! https://bsd.network/@brynet/117470661342565419

blargh. Shot waaaay too much time trying to diagnose an httpd(8) + acme-client(1) issue on a recent #OpenBSD install.

I pointed acme-client at the Let's Encrypt testing/dev endpoint, got the certs/chain/keys in the right place, reloaded httpd, and refreshed. Cert-chain looked like what I expected, rolling up to the (unrecognized) root and throwing Unknown CA warnings.

So I repointed my acme-client.conf file at the *production* Let's Encrypt endpoint, re-issued the acme-client command to re-fetch them, reloaded httpd, and refreshed the browser. but still got the same errors. The chain kept showing the old dev-signing certs, not the valid ones.

Apparently acme-client only (re)downloads certs if they're coming up on needing renewal. So acme-client was running, seeing that my bad-certs were sufficiently recent, and just not requesting/writing updated fullchain/key files.

Deleted the bogus testing certs, re-ran acme-client, reloaded httpd, and 🪄 everything worked fine. 😑

Hopefully this saves someone else the trouble.

#OpenBSD 8.0 will be HUGE. I mean not in size but the amount of new features added since 7.9 to - current is incredible.

Headers Up! What's New in httpd and relayd https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261004115249 #openbsd #relayd #httpd #web #proxy #layer7filtering #filtering #security #development #freesoftware #libresoftware

New blog post: #EuroBSDCon in Brussels, then the w2k26 #OpenBSD hackathon in Edmonton.

🐡 httpd: header block/drop rules
🐡 relayd: regress tests + failover ideas
🐡 SDDM on OpenBSD, KWin on Wayland
🐡 What Plasma 6.8 means for KDE on OpenBSD

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/w2k26-edmonton-openbsd-hackathon/

Several improvements to vdcron, a cron for laptops, which make it now more resistant to laptop's shutdown or reboot. #openbsd #freebsd
Now runs perfectly on #voidlinux too

https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20261003

standing with theo

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage

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smug girl and fish

We have just installed yesterday's flood of #OpenBSD syspatches on our VM host server and all VMs. While at it, all VMs have been upgraded to #GameOfTrees 0.129.

Happy hacking!

📢 syspatch time!

Log message:
Release nsd unbound libressl procargs sysvipc iked wgbind sysvsem uidrange errata.

https://www.openbsd.org/errata78.html

https://www.openbsd.org/errata79.html

#OpenBSD #Errata #RUNBSD

You can find the new port "x11/sddm" on ports@. Feedback welcome. happy #OpenBSD #Desktop

Can't wait to run VMs with more than one CPU on #OpenBSD

PSA!

We are OpenBSD Amsterdam!
Not Linux || Windows Amsterdam.

EOPSA

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

😄

Ok, let’s go serious for a moment 🤓 #EuroBSDcon2026 #OpenBSD

I really like Simon Harrison's series of blog posts about using #GameOfTrees for simple version control tasks: https://simonh.uk/tags/got/index.html

My own use cases are more complicated than Simon's but it is making me happy to see confirmation of how the UI designed for working on #OpenBSD and related projects is working very well for people with fairly simple needs. That was one of my goals from the very beginning and is a significant differentiator from #Git.

This is my #GoToSocial (on #OpenBSD, on #bhyve, on #FreeBSD) instance, as seen from the garage. Doesn’t it look cute!?

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An htop screenshot displaying two processes that match a filter.

thyme

#openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #foss #comic

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fish and daemon examine old photos

@hi I tried #mangowm with #wayland and run it on #openbsd as my daily driver. Little more complicated to setup yes, but very lightweight with some eyecandy built it. It’s easy to use. All in ports already.

like = you run it on server
boost = you run it on desktop/laptop :)

❤️

blast from the past

#technomage #openbsd #windows #comic

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girl is stuck in a windows logo fish :remind me what i told you about windows." girl: "they are containers for graphical interfaces?" fish: "dont get clever with me, girl"

spleen is the default typeface on #openbsd ...

cc: @RussSharek@mastodon.art

😳 #OpenBSD 8.0-beta is already there!
🥺 and I still haven’t upgraded big-mama-vps to 7.9… 😱

Either Fish Linux is now a rolling release system, or I really need to get back to caring about my working VPSes…

With the syspatches to vmd yesterday, we lost a local fix we applied earlier to fix stability issues with vmd on #OpenBSD 7.8: see https://exquisite.social/@gothub/116413609523691565

We will be taking things down for a minute and upgrade our VM host to OpenBSD 7.9, which has the vmd fix we need. Back soon.

📢 EuroBSDCon2026: The Schedule is Here! 😈⛳️🐡

The schedule is now published!!
You can find it at: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

Grab your tickets 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

For everything else, peek at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #Conference #Register

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Cutout of the EuroBSDCon 2026 banner. Comic like drawing. First panel has a butler serving a nice Belgium beer. There are two speech bubbles. 1. ...we find this? 2. Etterbeek, Sir. The second panel has Manneken Pis doing his thing.

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

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)

d_d

Got a large amount of qwx #wifi driver diffs off my chest and shoved them into the #OpenBSD CVS repository. Please let this driver be more stable now, i.e. finally leave me alone for a while and let me use my laptop to get important work done...

• #protectli vp2430 with #openbsd
• #projectaudio dac box s2+
• #tonefactory amp s
• #tonefactory speaker l
• #logitec pebble 2 combo
• #samsung frame tv
  

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  line diagram of my media player setup: tv, openbsd server, dac, stereo amplifier, speakers, keyboard, mouse

then i discovered that openbsd doesn't support audio over hdmi and my openbsd server doesn't have analog audio output, obviously.

my tv had been connected to a stereo amplifier anyway, so my setup is actually even better now: a dedicated usb dac connected directly to the amplifier.

current setup:

openbsd -- usb dac -- amp -- speakers
openbsd -- hdmi tv

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dac box s2+

We really appreciate the work done on the TLS settings in relayd(8) and httpd(8).

It makes it even easier to get a tried and tested secure connection to your favorite OS and service!

"Both relayd(8) and httpd(8) now have the "secure" list of allowed crypto methods for HTTPS, which include TLSv1.3 and the TLSv1.2 AEAD cipher suites.

The previous list was "HIGH:!aNULL" which contain non-perfect-forward-security methods and this change may cause old clients to not be able to connect."

Source: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260629165750

Hat Tip to @sizeofvoid and others!

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

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Meme of "The Most Interesting Man in the World" is an advertising campaign for Dos Equis beer featuring actor Jonathan Goldsmith as a bearded, debonair older gentleman with voiceovers that were both humorous and outrageous. It has the text: I don't always tip, but when I do, it's my hat. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Interesting_Man_in_the_World

Can you guess when I activated ActivityPub relays on this #GoToSocial instance? BTW, although running on #OpenBSD, cpu and memory usage are still chilling.

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Evolution of post activity in the last 15 days.

For $REASONS, I took my (old) #Lenovo Ideapad S10 out of the box and installed #OpenBSD 7.9/i386 on it. Turns out... it installs and runs. But the only graphical Web browser I could use is Dillo; which can display DuckDuckGo but not Phanpy or my Bank User Portal. So I don't expect to go very far there. Also, even with hw.perfpolicy set to auto, the fan never stops blowing and making some annoying noise (although CPU is 40 degC).

Maybe I'll try some i386 Linux distro there to see what happens. Maybe it'll go back to its box until the Zombie Apocalypse and the need for 2W TDP CPU happen. Or until I need a 1024x600 10" tmux terminal... I could actually take it on the road where the P14 is too big and the iPhone is a bit too small...

And BTW, in case whatever, the dmesg is here https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=9039 :)

PS: While writing this post, the fan finally stopped blowing. Not sure why as temperature is still 40 degC. Anyway.

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The output from fastfetch on the Lenovo S10

I've got nothing.

20 new VMs were added and 46 VMs were renewed.

We donated €890 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €67645 (!!) since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay cool, safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2026

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Milton, Office Space, in his cubicle looking into the distance, with the text: I've got nothing" Source: Meme Generator

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Paypal receipt for €890

• hdmi (video) - tv
• usb (audio) - dac - amp - speakers

• idle: 10-15 w
• everything on (incl tv): 70-100 w

ESS9038K2M 32-bit
up to dsd256, pcm up to 32b/768kHz

it detects the intel hd audio and attaches azalia(4), but only the internal realtek alc257 codec is found.

there is no hdmi audio codec, no audio1, and mixerctl -a only shows the internal speaker/headphone outputs. the external display works over hdmi, but there is no way to select hdmi audio because no hdmi audio device is detected.

is hdmi audio expected to work with openbsd 7.9? if it should work, are there any additional diagnostics steps i should try?

similar to this setup, but with a trackpad not a mouse...

any ideas?

cc @joel@tumfatig.net

now i'm looking for m.2 modules (lte/5g and wifi ap) compatible with #openbsd. any recommendations?

Most hilarious #OpenBSD bug I've seen in a while: The kernel can panic when pressing the CapsLock key: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=178186466408482&w=2

Fortunately, true hackers have mapped CapsLock to Control ​

OpenBSD 7.9 will be deployed on the hosts as soon as possible!
We want to wait for the first errata to appear.

21 new VMs were added and 61 VMs were renewed.

We donated €1125 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €66755 since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2026

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Phoebe Teaching Joey refers to a scene from the Friends television series in which character Phoebe Buffay attempts to teach character Joey Tribbiani French by making him repeat words after her. In March 2020, the scene gained popularity in memes online, with Phoebe attempting to explain various concepts to Joey but ultimately failing. This one has the following exchange: Phoebe: Just Joey: Just Phoebe: Update Joey: Update Phoebe: And Joey: And Phoebe: Shutdown Joey: Update And Restart

Slides from Florian Obser (florian@)'s talk "Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to #OpenBSD VMs" yesterday at @bsd_nl's "Early 2026" conference.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdnl2026-predictable-ipv6.pdf

https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/W9P9RT/

Video is up on their Exquisite.tube channel! ​

@bsdnlconference

Is there a way in #OpenBSD to stop charging battery from the OS ?

I know there is "hw.battery.chargestop" but it doesn't work on my laptop.

IMGRAM MINI

https://nein.triapul.cz/imgram_mini

Minuscule static gallery, compatible with @rostiger 's webring ( https://codeberg.org/rostiger/subversive.pics_webring )

#openbsd #linux #ksh #art #theworkshop #links2gang #serpico

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imgram.mini nein.triapul.cz/technology/ksh/imgram_mini

Anyone out there running wayland on #openbsd, as a daily driver that have written anything about it?