openbsd

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. 😂

The new @BoxyBSD platform gained some new features for a better #BSD experience!

* The new portal now also finally supports VNC access to your BSD based VPS instances!

* You can finally select ISO files which offers you even to install any BSD or #OpenSolaris version from scratch or to install your VPS instance based on your personal needs without relying on a ready2use image. More images can be added upon request quickly. Simply get in touch with @gyptazy

* You can now get up to 2 free VPS instances to test and evaluate HA setups, multi-region setups etc.

* Extended DN42 peering (where you can also use your DN42 IPv4 addresses)

This is created by @gyptazy and if you're interested into more information, just come to the FOSDEM 2026 for a chat!

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #SmolBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonflyBSD #RUNBSD #FreeVPS #Hosting #IPv6 #DN42 #community #opensource #fosdem

I've still got 9 days holiday to take or lose them. So next week It's going to be me and #OpenBSD . Yeah that's right I really know how to chill and that'll leave me 4 days left.

rio-like configuration for base openbsd fvwm2

https://nein.triapul.cz/technology/openbsd/fvwm/

#rio #fvwm #plan9 #openbsd #fishlinux #serpico

Hypothetical question. If you were to donate to #OpenBSD would you be better to donate directly to the OpenBSD project or to the OpenBSD Foundation ? Or possibly either as it really doesn't matter ?

#OpenBSD folk that use Xterm I have a strange problem that when i highlight text say from the output of fastfetch and then paste it I get weird extras on the end , sometimes with what looks like font names that I don't use.

I pasted my laptops model number and it showed up as this 20Y1000SUKp-_g^O^C when it should have been just what I highlighted 20Y1000SUK
This is supposed to be /usr/X11R6 when pasted shows as /usr/X11R6Lohit Tamil

My .Xresources is below.

XTerm*termName: xterm-256color
XTerm*locale: true
XTerm*highlightSelection: true
XTerm*trimSelection: true
XTerm*saveLinew: 4096
XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*cursorBlink: true
XTerm.VT100.utf8: true
XTerm*allowScrollLock: true

! Xcursor theme
Xcursor.theme: Adwaita
Xcursor.size: 24

! Font
XTerm*faceName: Go Mono Nerd Font Mono
XTerm*renderFont: true
XTerm*faceSize: 10

Xft.dpi: 96

XTerm*keepClipboard: true
XTerm*selectToClipboard: true
XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \n\
Ctrl Shift <KeyPress>C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
Ctrl Shift <KeyPress>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)

! Clicking a line selects only from the current word forward
XTerm*cutToBeginningOfLine : false
! and dont include a trailing newline in the selection!
XTerm*cutNewline : false
! Some black magic to change what characters XTerm considers "word delimiters"
XTerm*charClass : 33:48,36-47:48,58-59:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48
! Select word on two clicks
XTerm*on2Clicks : word
! Select whole line on three clicks
XTerm*on3Clicks : line
! Select whole group on four clicks
XTerm*on4Clicks: group
! Select whole page on five clicks
XTerm*on5Clicks: page

! Gruvbox theme
XTerm*background: #262626
XTerm*foreground: #ebdbb2
XTerm*color0: #262628
XTerm*color8: #928374
XTerm*color1: #CC241D
XTerm*color9: #fb4934
XTerm*color2: #98971a
XTerm*color10: #b8bb26
XTerm*color3: #FF8F15
XTerm*color11: #FFAF00
XTerm*color4: #458588
XTerm*color12: #83a598
XTerm*color5: #b16286
XTerm*color13: #d3869b
XTerm*color6: #689d6a
XTerm*color14: #8ec07c
XTerm*color7: #a89984
XTerm*color15: #ebdbb2

It is really time to ditch Linux...

phoronix.com/forums/forum/phor…

When Attila joins Gengis Khan... 😖

I am desperate for having to time to ditch #Linux at least on my personal computers... 😭

#runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #nebsd #dragonflybsd

My RAM-miserly setup on #OpenBSD. XD

rld@falcon:~$ free total used freeMem: 3.7G 2.4G 1.3GSwap: 4.0G 0B 4.0Grld@falcon:~$ top -bn1 |grep ^MemoryMemory: Real: 304M/2209M act/tot Free: 1473M Cache: 948M Swap: 0K/4071Mrld@falcon:~$ uname -srmOpenBSD 7.8 amd64rld@falcon:~$ ps wwaux |sort -nsk6 |awk '$6/=1024 {printf "%5.02f %s\n", $6, $11}' |tail 6.85 i3bar 8.89 xenodm:10.71 /usr/local/bin/i312.84 syncthing15.81 /sbin/mount_mfs16.67 dunst63.16 alacritty63.23 alacritty67.93 /usr/X11R6/bin/X88.31 /usr/local/bin/syncthing

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.

#OpenBSD #Linux #Laptop

Hello from #OpenBSD!

#RunBSD
#GottaTryThemAll
#INeedMoreThinkpadsLOL

A question for those who run #OpenBSD servers in their #HomeLab . How many services do you serve on one physical server and what ?

Any recommendations for a pcie raid 1 card that has minimum two 6Gb sata ports not sas and it has to be #OpenBSD compatible ?
Bonus if it allows hot swapping too.

Still trawling through eBay to find a sas/sata raid card in pcie format that i could use on #OpenBSD with 2 x sata ssd drives ?
I'm thinking of turning the Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower into a server for things like web, cgit/git, syncthing and radicale plus possibly my snac instance ? It has 32Gb ram plus a 1Tb nvme which would house the os and the raid would be for data. Tell me I'm mad. 🙄
Help !
#HomeLab

Can't wait for wayland/gammastep to be accepted into the #OpenBSD ports.

Wow ! Today I learned that #OpenBSD now has #Wayback in it's ports.

Wayback is a X11 compatibility layer which allows for running full X11
desktop environments using Wayland components. It is essentially a
stub compositor which provides just enough Wayland capabilities to
host a rootful Xwayland server.

https://openports.pl/path/wayland/wayback

[ The deed is done ]

OK Now that I've got mango running as my #wayland compositor on #OpenBSD I'm kind of thinking of ditching dunst in favour of fnott and possibly using fyi instead of notify-send. I'm just playing with their configs at the moment but it's looking promising.

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fnott

So as you know I'm looking at repurposing an old Dell Optiplex 3080 tower as an #OpenBSD server. It's already got 32GB ram and a 1Tb NVME drive. I was thinking about adding some spinning rust for the data drive but I'm unsure whether to just add one hard drive as I'll be doing regular backups to NAS anyway. Or should I spend more purchasing two of the same drives for my usual RAID 1 setup like I did with my #FreeBSD server Beastie ?
Was looking at ways saving some £££ but maybe it's not a good idea ? It would eventually be hosting the following if possible. Snac instance, static website, git with cgit, Radicale, Syncthing and maybe a few more much much later.
#Homelab

Dropping Privileges in Go via @ggpsv https://lobste.rs/s/8k4omy #go #linux #openbsd
https://log.0x21.biz/posts/go-privdrop/