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https://klarasystems.com/articles/native-inotify-in-freebsd/ – Mark Johnston A seemingly simple file monitoring problem exposed deep limitations in FreeBSD’s traditional EVFILT_VNODE approach. This article explores how race conditions, scalability issues, and Linux compatibility challenges ultimately led to the development of a native inotify implementation for FreeBSD 15. … @klarainc@bird.makeup (automated)

tl;dr I used wg(4), pf(4), and relayd(8), all OpenBSD native tools, to encrypt all inbound connections from a gateway VPS to my local home server. This also hides my local IP information and I managed it all without much hassle and pain. I recently stood up a VPS running OpenBSD 7.9 on Vultr. The VPS is hosted in Chicago, Illinois, USA. I then took OpenBSD's native WireGuard driver, wg(4), to establish an encrypted tunnel to my local home lab server. Using relayd(8), OpenBSD's native reverse proxy, I can now forward virtual host connections to my home lab server, which has httpd(8) as a web server frontend. I used pf.conf(5) to configure OpenBSD's native fireweall, pf(4), which was incredibly easy. The result is a secure gateway that routes all traffic via WireGuard to my local server, obfuscating its location and other IP information. This was done by simply configuring handful of system daemons. I've done some OpenBSD network configuration before, but this was the most work I've done. The best part, it wasn't that difficult, and all manual pages provided sufficient details to work with them. Once I get my site set up I'll write up the experience and step-by-step instructions and share the page here. New OpenBSD milestone unlocked; no intent to stop anytime soon Happy hacking, hackers!

@grahamperrin Thanks! I read both the comment and the reply. It looks like, conceptually, we came up with the same solution. The main question is what data he used to generate the JSON file and under what license that data is distributed.

26/07/12 ⇒ Leanpub Book LAUNCH Three Essays on NetBSD by Chris Pinnock This book collects three essays I wrote in 2022 about the NetBSD operating system. https://leanpub.com/blog/leanpub-book-launch-three-essays-on-netbsd-by-chris-pinnock/

26/07/10 ⇒ Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Second-Pipe-GFX11-APU 26/07/12 ⇒ Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3 Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rework-Sysclal-Entry-Linux-7.3

Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 2 - Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

Cinnamon will fully support both X11 and Wayland sessions starting with Mint's next release https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-mint-wayland-stable/ ⇒ Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint's Next Cinnamon Release The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon's Wayland support where it's now ready to graduate. https://www.phoronix.com/news/LinuxMint-Cinnamon-Wayland-Good

26/07/04 ⇒ How to fix Homebox 0.26.2 not starting on FreeBSD After upgrading my Homebox jail yesterday from 0.25.2 to 0.26.2, the homebox service would not start anymore. Taking a look into /var/log/homebox.log, I got presented with the following error message: https://www.subnetspider.com/2026/07/04/fix-homebox-0-26-2-not-starting-on-freebsd.html

@phessler FYI

https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1uo72bi/bzfs1230_is_out/ … bzfs is a CLI for reliable ZFS snapshot replication using zfs send/receive and SSH. It is meant for the boring-but-important corner of infrastructure where "probably replicated" is not the vibe. The main bit in this release: bzfs can now drive recursive resumable ZFS stream packages …

Upgrading with Distribution Sets … Also, there's nothing about FreeBSD-ports-kmods.

07/01 ⇒ Running Garage in a FreeBSD Jail My work at $DAYJOB that involves a lot of work with data pipeline these days. Particularly the design of new and better ones, which help us serve users with better data (more advanced processing, better cartographic decisions, etc.). https://ianwwagner.com//running-garage-in-a-freebsd-jail.html

@naltun said: tyvm ??? Hummm, maybe: "Thank you very much", isn'it?!

Thanks, I deleted my duplicate!

What title says More info here: https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/issues/30#issuecomment-4835472901

Hi! So I have a small VPS with OpenBSD on it and I anticipate that disk space will not be enough, so my question is, if I know that I will never compile the whole system from source, can I just repurpose the space allocated to /usr/obj and /usr/src and mount those partitions where they're needed? Or is this a really really bad idea? It would free up about 10GB (out of 40GB total).

Linus? Polished? Business like? I mean, he isn't Theo, but he has..... a way with people.

I sought advice in Matrix, then ran a command: ubuntu-bug qutebrowser End result: Bug #2158488 “qutebrowser crashes when starting” : Bugs : qutebrowser package : Ubuntu

Four hours ago: … critical services used by the human #FreeBSD community are either down, or so degraded they are mostly unusable, by AI scrapers. … Does anyone know which services are, or were, down? https://bsd.network/@dch/116816905361984918

NIS+ got removed from Solaris back at the end of 2009. So it got removed from OpenSolaris and thus illumos, as that was before the fork. This was announced long before. As a heavy NIS+ user at the time, we were somewhat dismayed to read the announcement. Sun said it would be no problem, LDAP was a superior replacement. We actually tried LDAP, and to call it an unmitigated disaster would be far too generous. Apart from the excessive hardware requirements, endless bugs, woeful performance, and lack of basic functionality, there was an almost total lack of administrative tooling. My understanding is that NIS itself is also slated for the chop in Solaris 11 at some point. In theory, you could reinstate NIS+ in illumos - we have the whole commit history so reverting 6874309 wouldn't be so bad. Whether you could get it to work properly is another matter.