openbsd

GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview https://lobste.rs/s/buzdkb #openbsd
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178948744271633&w=2

Deshittification as a Service: Reclaiming Privacy and Performance with OpenBSD pf and Unbound https://lobste.rs/s/gl3mgl #openbsd #privacy
https://fabricati-diem.inform.social/post/deshittification-as-a-service/

When you say ‘I use Linux’ and accidentally summon the entire BSD family.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Unix #Linux #BSD #Meme #Memes #Humor #SpongeBob

🔎 You already know which directory takes up a lot of disk space and want to clean out? With 'find' you you can search for files bigger than a specific size.

⚠️ The size option of find is different for #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD, and others.

find / -size +10000000c

💡 In my Linux example I used mebibytes. Yes, that silly name thing where we sometimes use 1000 and sometimes binary 2^10 (1024).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte

#Linux #LinuxTips #commandline #files

GEFS on OpenBSD, a very early preview.

Ori Bernstein is porting GEFS, the crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write filesystem originally written for 9front, to OpenBSD.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178948744271633&w=2

#openbsd #bsd

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Gothub lists https://lobste.rs/s/wo4fuj #openbsd #vcs
https://gothub.org/lists.html

From Report to Patch, the OpenBSD Errata Process https://lobste.rs/s/wskpxf #video #openbsd #security
https://exquisite.tube/w/sDafcZjdEQpR83aogPSx9j

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month https://lobste.rs/s/za8vwp #openbsd #unix
https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/

2 days of running #OpenBSD as a daily driver has been smooth as silk. I fixed the touchpad issue on my thinkpad and getting a linux VM setup for my web dev build and deploys was way easier than FreeBSD.

I am absolutely loving this operating system. it's solid, doesn't eat resources, and is simply a joy to use. I'm now seriously considering nuking my nixos partition and just putting debian or bazzite on it for only gaming.

#linux #BSD

Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD https://lobste.rs/s/sp4dnk #freebsd #hardware #linux #netbsd #openbsd
https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/

Overview of file systems on #OpenBSD and #NetBSD and mutual accessibility.

FFS (in kernel)
OpenBSD - v1+2, no journaling, no softdeps, OpenBSD does not recognized NetBSD's FFS
NetBSD - v1+2+2ea, has journaling, no softdeps, recognizes OpenBSD's FFS (but can mount only in ro mode)

Ext2/3/4 (in kernel)
OpenBSD - can create and mount ext2 in rw mode, ext3/4 mounted in ro mode (ext4 has to be 32bit)
NetBSD - same as above

FAT32 (in kernel)
OpenBSD - works flawlessly, file size limit: 4GB - 1B
NetBSD - ditto

ZFS (in kernel)
OpenBSD - no
NetBSD - yes, allows for root on ZFS if boot partition is FFS

NTFS (in kernel)
OpenBSD - mounts in ro mode, works well
NetBSD - theoretically allows for ro mounting, but I was not able to achieve that :(
See ntfs-3g for rw mounting

Honorable mention - exFA(r)T (as FUSE) - can be recognized as NTFS, use mount.exfat, slow

Update: UDF (in kernel)
OpenBSD - does not mount UDF partition due to: "mount_udf: mount: Invalid argument"
NetBSD - reads and writes, transfer is mediocre, needs doing too many hoops than using FAT32
udfclient from ports does not recognize UDF partition...

Wanna transfer data from OpenBSD to NetBSD? Mount FFS in ro mode and siphon data off.
Wanna transfer data from NetBSD to OpenBSD? newfs_msdos is the answer or use exFAT/NTFS+ntfs-3g if you are patient.

Minor tip for those using FAT32 - command split(1) allows to cut tar archives into smaller parts which can be placed onto FAT partition. To merge them, use cat(1).

You probably know all that stuff.

More #NetBSD thoughts:

I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;)

But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually kinda diggin' it!

It's also probably the most attractive default GUI of any of the BSDs, considering that obsd gives you a pretty loud bright red or bright blue titlebar motif-looking thing (not knocking motif, just the primary color choice), and #FreeBSD gives you (checks notes) no GUI by default. XD

ctwm isn't quite as flexible as i3/sway, but it's just configurable enough to keep me coming back and tinkering away at it. The way the warpring function (alt+tab, in other words) works is pretty obtuse (only moving forward or backward in the window list, never re-ordering based on recency), but once I learned how to exclude windows (X11 classes or window titles) from the warpring, it became a ton more usable.

I also figured out how to enable active titlebar highlight (it drives me nuts when that's disabled or very subtle, how do you even not understand that basic tenet of usability?) and even how to assign an xpm image to the titlebar so it looks pretty.

Fun stuff!

I should post another screenshot. ;)

Hey #OpenBSD friends, I'm stumped.

Been trying to connect to my NAS via smb/cifs but I can't figure it out.

I find nothing relevant in the ports tree when searching for cifs/smb/samba. FreeBSD had a mount_smbfs but nothing like that here that I can find…

Does OpenBSD plain not have a way to mount smb/cifs?

Any help would be appreciated. 💜

#OpenBSD #NetBSD

Let's settle this once and for all! 👻

Linux vs. BSD! 😈

Which side are you on? 🐧🐡

#Linux #Debian #Arch #ArchLinux #Fedora #FedoraLinux #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD

Does anyone know if there's a WIP driver for Intel AX200 wireless NICs on #NetBSD? I have a laptop I'm tempted to install it on but I don't see any compatible drivers in the wireless driver matrix https://wiki.netbsd.org/wifi_driver_state_matrix/.

If not, does anyone have any idea how difficult it is to port drivers from #OpenBSD? I'd be tempted to try porting `iwx(4)` but have never done something like that before.

Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD https://lobste.rs/s/cxlrc5 #openbsd #security
https://calif.io/research/big-fish

Is isolation in #OpenBSD with chroot + privsep + pledge/unveil as simple to do as it is in #FreeBSD Jails? How do you do it when you need to use the feature?

#openbsd #bsd #jail #chroot #privsep #pledge #unveil

Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper https://lobste.rs/s/fcj31p #openbsd #privacy
https://fabricati-diem.inform.social/post/deshittification-as-a-service-part2-bypassing-the-app-store-gatekeeper/

is there even anyone else with interest in having #netbsd or #openbsd on phones?
android is a lost cause (being bloated to unimaginable degrees) and so is linux
i want to eventually look into porting netbsd to my samsung s II (there's already some drivers in linux)

Lost Tech

#technomage #unix_surrealism #openbsd #css #ui #webdev

Work on GEFS (the Good Enough File System) for OpenBSD progresses https://lobste.rs/s/zjjvbo #openbsd
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261101115637

#PSA for my #OpenBSD peeps:

I have a simple script called pkg_size that lets you query the size of a package and any dependencies that would need to be installed* without installing it.

* (it totals the sizes that pkg_add -s reports for every mountpoint and converts it to usable SI units, not just bytes)

https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/pkg_size

It has no dependencies outside of base* (I just reworked it to use /bin/ksh instead of bash).

* (Actual dependencies/external binaries called: basename, bc, grep, mktemp, pkg_add, pkg_info, rm, sed, tee)

Example:

$ pkg_size qemu
quirks-7.147 signed on 2025-10-10T23:15:26Z
qemu-10.0.2:capstone-5.0: ok
qemu-10.0.2:libssh-0.11.3: ok
qemu-10.0.2:dtc-1.7.0: ok
qemu-10.0.2:libiscsi-1.20.0: ok
qemu-10.0.2:qemu-ga-10.0.2: ok
qemu-10.0.2:libslirp-4.7.0: ok
qemu-10.0.2: ok
/dev/sd1a on /: 1946 bytes
/dev/sd1h on /usr/local: 882110457 bytes
qemu	841.24 MiB

Usage: pkg_size package1 [ package2 [ package3 ... ] ]

OpenBSD has done parodies of AI-generated artwork, am I right? Sorry for the quality.

#openbsd #ai #aiart #generativeart #aislop #parody