Back on my bullshit with OpenBSD, after a Buckminster Fuller-esque nap. I'll probably need to figure out how to SSH into this QEMU VM, because for whatever reason, the framebuffer is hurting my eyes. Maybe I'm getting old! Using my own terminal would be greatly preferred.

But I'm already in love with the mail system in a way I've never felt before. On Linux, email always felt arcane, opaque, and to be avoided - I hosted my own a long time ago in the Roaming Initiative days, and hated it badly. And of course, we've all seen `sudo` threaten "I'm emailing the administrator about this!" with no clue where THAT email went to.

On OpenBSD, mail is one of the first things used to introduce the system, and it's simple and clean and straightforward, and it's treated as "just a basic thing all users deserve to have working out of the box."

#openbsd79 #openbsd

It turns out I had an OpenBSD.Amsterdam instance I had never upgraded 😬

Luckily, going manually from 7.2 to 7.9 worked 😅

#runbsd #openbsd #openbsd79 #openbsdams

Happy release day! 🥳

Grab some food and drinks, prepare your update engines and hack away!

#OpenBSD79 #OpenBSD

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@openbsdjournal/116601665738815331

And there's a song!! #openbsd #openbsd79

Upgrading to OpenBSD 7.9. Was running -current but stopped updating a while ago.

#OpenBSD #openbsd79

We are very close to a new OpenBSD release. "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html can help you prepare for the upgrade.

If you are using exim as your MTA (or any other non-base system MTA), "OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/time_for_opensmtpd.html contains useful pointers for a better mail future.

#openbsd #newrelease #openbsd79 #opensmtpd #email #smtp #rspamd #antispam #spam #exim