@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.

In case you wonder if MeLE Quieter 4C can #RunBSD, you can have a look at #NetBSD and #FreeBSD. And old #OpenBSD is also available.

You’re welcome!

PS: if someone has such info for the AOOSTAR WTR Pro (AMD R7 5825U), I may be interested ;-)

Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260804054218 #openbsd #vmm #vmd #virtualization #virtualmachines #testing #newcode #development #security #freesoftware #libresoftware

If any of my work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or elsewhere) has been helpful in the past, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. ​

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

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Artwork is from "Puffer City" by Brandon Graham https://www.openbsd.org/images/puffer_city.jpg

Things the OS authors don't want you to know:

* The #FreeBSD logo is Beastie, because it reminds you to dare, hack, and stop praying.
* The #Linux logo is Tux, because even penguins know what it is like to freeze with amdgpu.
* The #Windows logo is a window, because that is where you throw the PC after the third BSOD.
* The #OpenBSD logo is Puffy, because it’s the only fish that takes security more seriously than being edible.
* The #NetBSD logo is a flag, because if it boots on your hardware, they claim it as territory.
* The #DragonFlyBSD logo is a dragonfly, because every time you explain HAMMER2, people suddenly find somewhere else to be.
* The #macOS logo is an Apple, because one bite costs 999$, no 1999$, no 4999$. They soldered the RAM to keep the worms out.
* The #ChromeOS logo is #chrome because the operating system is just the browser admitting it won.

Happy Friendship Day!
#DragonflyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #GhostBSD #MidnightBSD #HardenededBSD #RunBSD

Voor de techneuten onder ons, die op @doeidag overwegen om e-mail (weer) in eigen beheer te nemen, heb ik een artikel afgelopen maand online gezet met behulp van #OpenBSD, #OpenSMTPD en #Rspamd.

Door het gebruik van unieke emailadressen per webshop/vereniging/nieuwsbrief, is het eenvoudig om bij een #datalek het adres uit te schakelen. Ook ontkoppel je met deze unieke adressen vele diensten aan jou. Laten we het bedrijven moeilijk maken om jou te profileren 💪

https://opensource.vooreenbeginner.nl/self-hosting/eigen-mailserver-met-openbsd/

#DoeiDag

@mboelen @doeidag mooi artikel over je eigen email server inrichten. Ik heb een eigen emailserver al zo'n 20 jaar en behalve om te leren hoe het werkt zou ik het afraden. Het is imho helemaal niet relatief eenvoudig en email die niet goed werkt leidt tot grote stress is mijn ervaring.
Ik gebruik deze docker based server https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver. Maar ook die is ingewikkeld want email is ingewikkeld, met name hoe houdt je spam buiten.

Dat gezegd hebbende, het is wel leuk. Die sieve truuks ga ik overnemen, cool.
In je freebsd setup een paar dingen ter feedback
1. waarom een webserver, daarmee vergroot je aanvalsoppervlak. Letsencrypt kan via dns dacht ik en dan heb je die server niet nodig
2. ik snap uit het artikel niet wat de server precies levert. Geen webmail toch, alleen imap neem ik aan
3. Als je imap levert, moet je ook backup verzorgen zou ik zeggen, of wellicht heb ik dat gemist
4. Met een vast ip adres thuis gaat het ook prima, bij mij wel trnminste. Als je ptr en dns etc maar voor elkaar zijn.

Mooi artikel, wel grote uitdaging
#linux #openbsd #souvereignity

Question for those who #selfhost their email servers - has anyone migrated from #postfix to #openSMTPD?

I've been running Postfix for more than a decade on the primary MX, but it frankly feels overkill for a relatively simple multi-domain setup for essentially just hosting my family's email.

I'm already running openSMTPD on #OpenBSD on my secondary, so I've got some limited experience with it.

Nothing against Postfix, it just feels that with my setup I'm using an 18 wheeler to transport a case of beer...

#selfHosting #email

hey wait

Compile a custom OpenBSD kernel to use 1000 ticks for the best possible audio and graphics performance

https://pkg-add.vip/path/emulators/dolphin,-nogui

how many folks are actually doing this? anyone notice a difference in responsiveness during non-emulation or non-gaming use? is the juice worth the squeeze, as it were?

#openbsd

Another record broken! Highest monthly donation to date!

19 new VMs were added and 82 VMs were renewed.

We donated €1420 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €69065 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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Image of a broken record (vinyl). Broken in half, and one half broken in smaller pieces.

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Paypal receipt for €1420

What does a good C development environment look like on #OpenBSD in 2026? What do people use?

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

Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day

To all the sysadmins quietly keeping the lights on, we salute you.

#Sysadmin #FreeBSD #Linux #OpenBSD #BastilleBSD

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A "UNIX System Park" t-shirt, with a silhouette of characters Lex and Tim. Lex is saying, "IT'S A UNIX SYSTEM. I KNOW THIS!" and then the text, "REBOOTING SYSTEM...", in a parody of the 'Jurassic Park' logo.

My new desktop wallpaper on my #OpenBSD and #Fedora systems. This is where I really want to be.

🏕️ 🛶 ​

#ShowYourDesktop #ShareYourDesktop #Screenshots #DesktopScreenshots

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Screenshot of MATE Desktop on OpenBSD 8.0-beta showing a columns of icons on the left, a taskbar on the bottom, and Xterm at the top right showing system information for my OpenBSD desktop at work using fastfetch, along with a cute ASCII Puffy. The wallpaper is that of a row of canoes on the lakeshore with mountains on the background and a sky that's either sunrise or sunset, and it's mostly cloudy.

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Screenshot of KDE Plasma on Fedora 44 showing a columns of icons on the left, a taskbar on the bottom, and a borderless Konsole at the top right showing system information for my HP ProBook 4540s, along with an ASCII Fedora logo. The wallpaper is that of a row of canoes on the lakeshore with mountains on the background and a sky that's either sunrise or sunset, and it's mostly cloudy.

42 days till the European *BSD event of 2026! 😈⛳🐡

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

🗓️ at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

For everything else, peek at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/

Lets eat 🧇 in Brussels!

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

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

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Cut out of a comic created for EuroBSDCon in the style of Tintin. There are two panels visible. The first panel on the right has a butler presenting a Belgium Beer to a character who is out of frame. There is a speech bubble from the out of frame character which says: "we find this?" The butler replies: "Etterbeek, sir." Etterbeek is where the VUB is located and the location of EuroBSDCon 2026. The second panel has Manneken Pis. Dutch for 'Little Pissing Man' is a landmark 55.5 cm (21.9 in) bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens: a nude boy urinating into the fountain's basin. There is a speech bubble as well that says: "Not here".

😳 #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…

Wait... #NetBSD has journaling in FFS? HOW?!? XD
#OpenBSD even jettisoned softdeps! Journaling would be amazing to have!!

(I think I understand their rationale, though)

This is your no-so-often notification that this #GoToSocial instance, running on #OpenBSD 7.9 using NOWASM, has been upgraded to the latest v0.22.1 Shrubbier Sloth 🌿🌿. And seem to still be working.

#RunBSD

It took a bit of patching out a few linuxisms, but I finally got @sivecano 's rhine (https://codeberg.org/sivecano/rhine) building and running on #OpenBSD \o/

#Wayland #rhine #river #ziglang

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#WindowManager #Linux #OpenBSD #FreeBSD

#OpenBSD httpd(8) now has support for fully configuring custom HTTP response headers.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178495844507568&w=2

This enables httpd to add security headers, custom metadata, or remove unwanted headers without modifying app/fastcgi code.

Very cool. ​

So July 2026 is my 25th anniversary of running OpenBSD as my Desktop operating system, and my preferred OS in general, from 2.9 to 7,9 50 releases, and it keeps getting better!
#OpenBSD

#openbsd users, what #laptops are you running successfully? curious to know your preference. #thinkpad takes priority

i'm working on a small project with openbsd and would like hardware recommendation besides the t480s i fried recently

Upgraded my OpenBSD VPS I have with @OpenBSDAms, and it took less than 20 minutes, including faffing about with some package cleanup. Nothing broke in the process.

Unreasonably fast update.

#OpenBSD

The upgrade is done. Our VM host is now running #OpenBSD 7.9 and should be stable again.

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.

📢 All hosts are upgraded! 📢

All the servers are now running #OpenBSD 7.9 with all the latest syspatches.

https://openbsd.amsterdam/servers.html

When you are using FDE, make sure you start your own VM.

https://status.openbsd.amsterdam/

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD #Maintenance

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Serious dog (husky) looking straight in the camera, ears back. It has the text: Maintenance? What maintenance??

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/)

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

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

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)

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

Support for the loongson platform has been retired in #OpenBSD -current and has now been unhooked from the build. 7.9 is the last release for this platform.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178414195958403&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178414227758657&w=2

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OpenBSD/loongson on a lemote laptop

The EuroBSDcon 2026 program is published: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

See https://2026.eurobsdcon.org for more info

To register https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

And just to be clear to anyone unfamiliar with OpenBSD: no, the project itself does not use CloudFlare. The domain is not using the CF nameservers, nor are they being proxied by those scumbags.

This only applies to the CF mirror at cloudflare.cdn.openbsd.org.

And I have no clue why this is happening. This connection does not expose any services, nor is there any kind of abuse coming from it. But moreover: I don't care.

#OpenBSD

They see me rollin', they hatin'

Apparently CF decided that I am a naughty boi and that I should not be able to access the CF CDN mirror for OpenBSD.

This is my personal badge of honor

(seems that they haven't figured out how mirrors work)

#OpenBSD #CloudFlare

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CloudFlare error: Sorry, you have been blocked. You are unable to access openbsd.org.

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...

It may not like like it, but that is progress:

#openbsd #mnt_reform #rk3588

• #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

Amazing… just solved* a problem on my #OpenBSD desktop thanks to a tiny program posted to a mailing list back in 12002: https://marc.info/?l=netbsd-users&m=103719000328428&w=2

The layers of awesomeness here:
• the code is tiny enough to know it contains no nasties
• it compiles without any changes
• it still does the job it was programmed for
• it works around the problem I have today (xenodm crashes on resume)
• the author wrote it to work around the same problem
• 23½ years ago!

I will continue my #OpenBSD gaming point&click adventure livestream journey today with The Blackwell Legacy, the game which kicked of the universe that Unavowed also takes place in.

With the latest (so far uncommitted) changes to fauxstream, technical issues like sudden stream interruptions *should* be a lot less likely.

The stream will be in 3 hours (23:00 UTC) at:

https://spectra.video/w/b24dMnD7E4dgvFvRDdgcyq

#PlayOnBSD

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?