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@grahamperrin said:
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I'm glad they limit their use of AI. Keep us updated with any news on the project, I might see if I can run it in a VM.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Differences between between FreeBSD/Darwin and NextBSD:
https://github.com/nextbsd-redux/nextbsd#whats-different-from-other-bsds

This is a neat project but I personally dislike Darwin as an OS. This project isn't for me but I think it hits a good niche in the BSD community.

AI is extensively used in this project. When I use AI I have it generate git-diff(1)s so I can inspect and change things on-the-fly (reduce hallucinations and poor code logic, etc.) and add the code to source tree myself. This project has one active dev and each commit I saw is co-authored by Claude. This is a non-starter for me.

That said I do think it's an interesting project and there are people out there who'd love hacking on this.

@CiotBSD excellent, tyvm for the share! Yeah Solene's articles have been quite helpful for me the last few years as I transition more workloads to OpenBSD.

I've heard she has since moved onto other projects and I am thankful for all the OpenBSD content she has left for the community.

Found this great article (by Solene, no less!) on setting up a Roundcube mail server on OpenBSD.

Just what I was looking for! The link: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-07-24-openbsd-email-server-setup.html

Happy hacking!

@grahamperrin said:

Distros do not divide us, because the kernel unites us.

I love this quote. Hear hear

Hear, hear

I'm revisiting amd64 assembly programming and came across this [1] great post on nasm programming on Linux.

Sharing this in case anyone else is looking for information on the topic.

[1] https://linuxvox.com/blog/basic-yet-thorough-assembly-tutorial-linux/

Sharing this [1] link as I dive into amd64 assembly programming on OpenBSD (it really came in handy!).

This [2] Reddit thread also helped me understand the elf(5) requirements for programming assembly on OpenBSD.

Happy hacking!

[1] https://astharoshe.net/2020-06-28-Hello_assembler.html
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/s/JN0hTLNKQF

e: typo

I'm looking to set up a WireGuard VPN on OpenBSD and found this helpful article: https://www.n3s0.tech/feed/build/wireguard/personal-wireguard-server-on-openbsd/

My use case: I am exposing some local/home services to the Internet but want added security, so I am placing them behind a wg(4) VPN. I've never done this so I am sharing this in case one finds it useful.

Happy hacking

Always a great read from Miod, thanks for the updates!

I came across this [1] nice post detailing how to customize the ksh(1) experience. I came for the tab completions but it has some general ksh wisdom.

Sharing it as ksh(1) is the default shell on OpenBSD and it's a great shell in general.

[1] https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20210102

Love the content on jails in this post. Thanks for the share!

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.

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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