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I love bhyve but OpenBSD's security defaults (as well as its cohesiveness) are what pulled me to hosting on OpenBSD. vmm(4) is not a bad hypervisor, hopefully more work goes into it.

@izder456 said:

@naltun report your experience to this thread please when you do:
https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/issues/30

thanks for the kind words!

et voila

Thanks for the work on desktop-installer @izder456 I'll update the PR with my experience when I get a chance

e: retake screenshot

e: I added a comment in the PR thread

I've never participated in GSoC but have wanted to get involved with some NetBSD hacking. Is this open to all potential contributors or just students?

@grahamperrin said:

A user group solely for locals to meet in person and, occasionally, online?

Exactly. I was part of my Computing Society at university; it was a great way to meet, learn, and share. I haven't attended a LUG/BUG in years... I miss being part of a 3rd place for Unix nerds and am up to try and steward a group.

Great work! I've always manually set up OpenBSD (I remember desktop-installer but I don't think it supported what I wanted before). Will definitely try this on my Dell Inspiron I'm installing OpenBSD on this week

@unix_joe said:

OpenBSD current on a ThinkPad. LXQt. Daily laptop.

I've never used LXQt but this looks great! I'm preparing to install OpenBSD on my Dell Inspiron w/ Spectrwm, but I might try LXQt as well.

e: removed picture from quote

Free yourself. Go back to the old ways. Especially if you're angry about the influx of new people and AI bots stealing your attention... Whatever you do, don't get tricked into running an operation that's half tech incubator and half daycare for people whose parents gave them a keyboard and no social skills.

I've been getting into RISC-V by working on a fork of xv6 [0]. I started following RISC-V development from the beginning, but am only now writing code targeting the ISA -- and it's been fun!

[0] https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv

I hadn't come across this CVE. Thanks for the share!

TIL about the Radicle forge! Great work in supporting HardenedBSD.

I recently relocated to a place with no local BSD/Linux/Unix user group. There is a burgeoning IT scene of local geeks and professionals and I think it's a ripe environment for a Unix user group.

My motivation: I'm passionate about discussing ethics in IT, teaching Unix-fu, and helping people install free/open Unix (install fests let's gooo).

Does anyone have any experience with running a user group? What feedback do you have?

Long live liberated Unix

I got into IT right around the liberation of the SunOS source code. I unfortunately never had a chance to play with SPARC systems but if I find an affordable system I'd play with Illumos or OpenBSD on it. I spent some time reviewing the SPARC ISA (which was based).

I saw this yesterday and want to give it a try. The C code was fun to review.

e: Found a small typo in a code comment and submitted a patch to parados (which was merged )

Congrats NetBSD! The first BSD I ever installed successfully... then quickly dropped it because I was lost and confused. But that's a reflection of where my skills were at many years ago... Since then NetBSD now has things like pkgsrc and bozohttpd. My time is fairly limited nowadays but it's still on my TODO to give NetBSD another serious go. It probably won't replace OpenBSD for me, but I love hacking on systems and NetBSD is the ultimate hacking OS.

Looking forward to another year of NetBSD updates. Well done and thanks to all contributors! 🥳

This is an excellent post. Thank you for the share!

e: It'd be cool to have this as a manual page, all of the syscalls laid out in a table with code references. I'm keeping this in mind as an OpenBSD user.

Great reminder. I used vim to dig through a massive SQL dump during a CTF and although I performed well it wasn't without some headache.

@ianmjones said:

I ended up using https://ports.to for my searches, is that a good alternative?

I use https://openports.pl/ which I believe is run by Marc Espie (espie@, developer behind OpenBSD ports) and is the web frontend for a tool that ships as part of the OpenBSD ports infrastructure (similar to Git web).

I can't provide a roadmap, but something that helped me was to review the code for axe(4), the driver for my ethernet dongle.

I'm also interested in learning more about writing device drivers on OpenBSD. Some useful links I've reviewed before:

• https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2017-device-drivers.pdf
• http://thetarpit.org/2022/notes-on-openbsd-device-drivers

@grahamperrin Codeberg is giving 502s :') I'll check again later as I'm interested in seeing what this commit adds .

I'd say whoever thinks OpenBSD is slopware needs to review their own tech stack. I've been reviewing the source tree for a couple years now and it has made me a much better (and safer) C hacker. I also finally understand what a sane .conf file should look like, too.