openbsd

Wondering if I wanna keep the ancient HP as an upgrade test bed for FreeBSD since we've already done 2 upgrades, or use it to try out #NetBSD or #OpenBSD? What do you all think?

I wonder if I'd be able to host ( move ) all these services to an #OpenBSD server without using any VM ? Do you think that'd be possible considering port differences and maybe duplicates ? Come on help an old bird out please and don't say promox or FreeBSD jail as I'm using the later already.

snac
git with cgit
static website
radicale
syncthing

The reverse proxy can be moved to the opnsense router.

Resisting the urge to show Beastie the door and move Puffy in on my ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 AMD.
Why would I want to do this when I have #OpenBSD running on my Dell tower ? I need help for sure to silence those voices. 🙄

Daily Driving #OpenBSD by Antony FB ( @afb )

https://antonyfb.com/blog/daily-driving-openbsd.html

I am once again requesting that anyone who has personally witnessed #openbsd boot on an RK3588-equipped MNT Reform laptop come forward

Do you like #OpenBSD 7.7 artwork? Do you enjoy @prahou art?

You can now buy OpenBSD wearable featuring his art

https://openbsd.creator-spring.com/

Well now it seems #OpenBSD has me beat when trying to wipe and setup a new USB memory stick.
I have never had issues under FreeBSD or Linux before but this is either me being extremely thick or ??

justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas fdisk -iy sd2
Writing MBR at offset 0.
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas disklabel -E sd2
Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt)
sd2> p
OpenBSD area: 64-15728640; size: 15728576; free: 15728576
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
c: 15728640 0 unused
sd2> a
partition to add: [a]
offset: [64]
size: [15728576]
FS type: [4.2BSD] ext2fs
sd2*> q
Write new label?: [y] y
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ ^Cas disklabel -E sd2
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas disklabel sd2
# /dev/rsd2c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: Flash Disk
duid: 507add78df02fecc
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 979
total sectors: 15728640
boundstart: 64
boundend: 15728640

16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 15728576 64 ext2fs
c: 15728640 0 unused
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas newfs_ext2fs /dev/rsd2a
/dev/rsd2a: 7679.9MB (15728576 sectors) block size 4096, fragment size 4096
using 60 block groups of 128.0MB, 32768 blks, 16384 inodes.
^C
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas newfs_ext2fs /dev/sd2a
newfs_ext2fs: /dev/sd2a: block device
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas newfs_ext2fs sd2a
/dev/rsd2a: 7679.9MB (15728576 sectors) block size 4096, fragment size 4096
using 60 block groups of 128.0MB, 32768 blks, 16384 inodes.
^C
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas newfs_ext2fs -I sd2a
/dev/rsd2a: 7679.9MB (15728576 sectors) block size 4096, fragment size 4096
using 60 block groups of 128.0MB, 32768 blks, 16384 inodes.

I used dd to wipe the USB then checked it was wiped. Then did the above and it all seems ok as per folk on the web and OpenBSD docs but newfs_extfs just sits there doing nothing.

Anyone help or have a simple idiot sheet of what to do from wiping the USB memory stick to setting up an ext2 partition and formatting it. Mounting it will be the easy part.

Back home from work and my #OpenBSD destktop is now reporting 7.8-current so I can drop the -Dsnap from pkg commands.

kern.version=OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #55: Fri Oct 17 11:14:21 MDT 2025
deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP

Wink and wave from #GoToSocial 0.20.1 running on #OpenBSD #7.7. Duplicate posts in timeline should now be solved.

Once #OpenBSD 7.8 is released I'll more than likely install it onto my ThinkPad and then switch to current. As I get older I've come to realise that it's not always about the latest and greatest. Just use what you feel comfortable with and what suits your needs.

New #ThinkPad #OpenBSD boot logo and I've not installed yet as not committed to installing OpenBSD yet. But what do you think ???

OMG How did that happen ? Not a great photo from my old FP4. Also I've not yet installed #OpenBSD on this AMD P14s Gen 1. She's still running #FreeBSD at the moment.

Are you in #tech and running your own #Fediverse instance? You might want to join an Activity Pub relay instance!

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This looks handy for when I install #OpenBSD 7.8 Current onto my #ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 AMD.

amd64:
Fix processing of GPIO events for pin numbers less than 256 with an _EVT method. Fixes power button on various ThinkPads with AMD CPUs.

#openBSD 7.8 Released.

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

People keep asking for free VPS / VMs and I’m evaluating a good spot for reopening the registration at @BoxyBSD

I think #FOSDEM might be a perfectly good slot to provide people BSD based systems for free again.

#opensource #learning #education #runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsd #freevm #freevps #hosting #ipv6 #homelab

Fish Alpinism

How I make digital art.

https://triapul.cz/_/1765291397

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #alpine #linux #gimp #art #foss

@gumnos@bsd.cafe @justine With apologies to Pokémon, I think the slogan with the BSDs should be,
"Gotta try 'em all!" XD

I've spent some quality time in #OpenBSD and now #FreeBSD, I'd like to try #NetBSD and #DragonflyBSD next.

(This is regarding https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/gumnos/statuses/115695846629134863. Not sure why the context got lost XD)

Strange everything has been fine on #OpenBSD current of late except for when I updated to this.

kern.version=OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #143: Tue Dec 9 11:05:13 MST 2025

When I ran up bspwm and qutebrowser then watched an embedded video my external usb keyboard and trackball stopped working. The ThinkPads still worked so it seems I came across a USB issue ?
Any how I switched the keyboard and trackballs usb ports off and on via the usb hub and they started working again. I haven't managed to recreate this as yet so unsure about submitting a bug report ?

Oooh. Do #OpenBSD folk not build there own keyboards ? There's no qmk in their repos.

https://qmk.fm/

Well, fuck. As the apes at the end of the Spaceballs movie would say, there goes the planet.

https://aaif.io/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation-aaif-anchored-by-new-project-contributions-including-model-context-protocol-mcp-goose-and-agents-md/

#FuckAI #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Anybody running #OpenBSD with i226V 2.5Gb nics successfully ???

Please boost <3

So I found the answer here and according to the blog it's a YES ! - https://www.rsadowski.de/posts/2025/aoostar-gem12-pro-max-openbsd/#the-top

Playing with apmd and suspend to disk on my #OpenBSD ThinkPad P14s AMD Gen 1 and I don't this this is going to work ? It's been like that for 5 minutes now.
Next I'll try suspend to ram which I also don't hold out much hope for. Good thing I just shutdown mt laptop when I'm done. 😂

Playing with apmd and suspend to disk on my #OpenBSD ThinkPad P14s AMD Gen 1 and I don't this this is going to work ? It's been like that for 5 minutes now.
Next I'll try suspend to ram which I also don't hold out much hope for. Good thing I just shutdown my laptop when I'm done. 😂

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