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@nabeards
#OpenBSD is well-known for its security so ends up being used in firewalls, routers, etc.
#FreeBSD's also commonly used in public facing boxes.
I tend to recommend Linux #Mint for newbies and use #Slackware in my VPS.
As always, YMMV.
@tragivictoria
Kenji Aoyama7h ago

#OpenBSD/luna88k の GENERIC.MP カーネルが不安定な件、1月末の

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/e2ec3bff9932b9378ed7f233bd1bab2ef0d90e0f#diff-893822e8d6d96494097bc6cc07f35c13dcb9b14dfbe828f8677612aa6d8b2714

の変更を戻すと安定するように見える。他の機種では問題が出ていないようだけれど...

https://bsd.network/@ao_kenji/116029471162158126

uvm_wait() was waking the pagedaemon then going to sleep on &uvmexp.f… · openbsd/src@e2ec3bf

…ree, but made no indicator in a variable that the pagedaemon should do anything. So, if the pagedaemon didn't see sleepin pmemrange allocations at the same time, it would go back to sleep. T...

GitHub
Katie Kloss 🏳️‍⚧️10h ago
New project idea: signing #openbsd packages using a Yubikey, rather than with a key file. Apparently the newest firmware supports ED25519 keys, so in theory I can put something together that does it the same way as the signify tool...
/home/rqm14h ago
ungoogled-chromium is playing crashy-crashy on the latest #OpenBSD snapshot once again, so this is another #Dooble appreciation post
𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪15h ago

All this years of #OpenBSD installations with <Enter> as sane answers to installer questions…

Then, you miss the "add user to additionnal group" question during #FreeBSD installation and you end up with a (remote) server on which you can’t connect using SSH as root (expected) but can connect using the regular user (expected); which can’t ˋsubecause it’s not part of thewheel` group (documented in man page but unexpected).

continue15h ago
Экзотика или...? Об OpenBSD с Вячеславом Воронцовым
Justine Smithies16h ago
Look what's landed in the #OpenBSD #Wayland #Ports - @dnkl@treehouse.systems #Fuzzel .
App launcher and fuzzy finder for Wayland, inspired by rofi(1) and dmenu(1).

https://codeberg.org/OpenBSD/ports/src/commit/e75015d36f450e30f148d99c3e4fd2ccf19138a5/wayland/fuzzel

ports

Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official cvs ports repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the ports@ mailing list.

Codeberg.org
ClaudioM18h ago
Time for a Friday selfie, once again representing that I #RunBSD, especially #OpenBSD. ​​​
BSD Security Advisories19h ago

OpenBSD 7.8 // RECVFD // ERRATA 022

Date: March 15, 2026
Name: 022_recvfd.patch
Description: pledge(2) "recvfd" should not kill a process who receives bad descriptors.
Link: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/022_recvfd.patch.sig

#OpenBSD #Security #Update

BSD Security Advisories19h ago

OpenBSD 7.7 // RECVFD // ERRATA 028

Date: March 15, 2026
Name: 028_recvfd.patch
Description: pledge(2) "recvfd" should not kill a process who receives bad descriptors.
Link: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.7/common/028_recvfd.patch.sig

#OpenBSD #Security #Update