🐡 Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD • btxx.org

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#openbsd #bsd #networking

Are there any WindowMaker users on NetBSD out there, who have Dockapps to recommend? My desktop has wired networking so no need for a radio control, but any system monitors and/or volume controls that blend in nicely with WMaker?

#WindowMaker #NetBSD

Yesterday, I experienced two disappointments, and in such cases, a bit of my enthusiasm tends to wane. It's been a long and winding week.
The fortunate thing, though, is that these very disappointments cause me to "withdraw" a bit into my own world. And this often means some cool "nerd" experiments. Plus, in the afternoon, some relaxation. And my wife is happy because she sees me doing my "nerd" things with a smile, and afterward, I have that sense of well-being to dedicate to doing some nice activities with her.

Currently, I have two PCEngines APUs (retired from client workloads but still in full form and energy). One with OpenBSD, the other with NetBSD, added to the FreeBSD one that's already been running since yesterday evening.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Hello, World!

I first learned Unix from NetBSD, moved on to running Linux myself in the 1990's along with FreeBSD and sometimes NetBSD. I'm also a former Solaris and OpenSolaris fan, and was an enthusiastic OS X user for a decade starting with 10.1.

These days my main machines are Fedora and recently NetBSD again. Work is programming microelectronics CAD software on RHEL.

I made this alt with the hope of following more of what's going on amongst BSD users, rather than just running a couple machines by myself.

#introduction

Sometimes I should stop trying to use Linux and just use #NetBSD.

Tried multiple Linux distributions to get a running xorg on a first generation Raspberry Pi. Failed. 👎
On NetBSD it was done in 1 minute. 👍

My little login.conf(5) shim is working nicely on Debian Linux.

login.conf(5) is one of the things that #FreeBSD (and to a lesser extent #NetBSD) does better than Debian.

I'm testing the stuff on #Debian as I mentioned a few days ago. It is going fairly well so far. I'm now at the point of setting up some #djbwares services.

#nosh #redo

When I complain that some software (or its dependencies) doesn't work on *BSD but requires Linux, I'm not criticizing Linux. For me, it's not an OS battle, but a matter of freedom and avoiding a dangerous and rampant computing monoculture. And when people reply to me with "well, just use it on Linux" - while they're giving me sensible advice - they're missing the crucial point: if it ONLY runs on Linux, it's not Linux's fault, but we are, precisely, creating a dangerous monoculture.

#Linux #SysAdmin #OSS #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos