Mastodawn

Major update to drm(4) code in OpenBSD-current (to linux 6.18.16) https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260310102936

Major update to drm(4) code in OpenBSD-current (to linux 6.18.16)

👽Etsh (V6Sh) Project🐡Feb 1

Dɪɢɪᴛᴀʟɪs Pᴜʀᴘᴜʀᴇᴀ Feb 1

Another lovely example of Amanita Pantherina. #wildlife #fungi

👽Etsh (V6Sh) Project🐡Apr 24, 2025

Justine Smithies Apr 24, 2025

Still playing around with #OpenBSD on my Desktop PC and to be honest I thought I'd hate it but you know what ? It's actually kind of growing on me. Yes I know I can use #SwayWM with #Wayland but the #Xorg stuff is kind of nostalgically nice, A blast from the past. Also I'm not that worried if I break it as I can just reinstall and start again until I figure it out totally.
What are desktops / terminals and so on are you OpenBSD folk running on your setups ?

👽Etsh (V6Sh) Project🐡Nov 25, 2024

Jay 🚩

Nov 25, 2024

#DragonFlyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

👽Etsh (V6Sh) Project🐡Sep 15, 2024

Natasha

🇪🇺Sep 15, 2024

Greatest scientists of all times were invited to a reunion...

Newton said he'd drop in.
Socretes said he'd think about it.
Ohm resisted the idea.
Boyle said he was under too much pressure.
Darwin said he'd wait to see what evolved.
Pierre and Marie Curie radiated enthusiasm.
Volta was electrified at the prospect.
Pavlov positively drooled at the thought.
Ampere was worried he wasn't current.
Audobon said he'd have to wing it.
Edison thought it would be illuminating.
Einstein said it would be relatively easy to attend.
Archimedes was buoyant at the thought.
Morse said, "I'll be there on the dot. Can't stop now, must dash."
Gauss was asked to attend because of hismagnetism.
Hertz said he planned to attend with greater frequency in the future.
Watt thought it would be a good way to let off steam.
Wilbur Wright accepted, provided he and Orville could get a flight.
Dr Jekyll declined - he said he hadn't been feeling himself lately.

👽Etsh (V6Sh) Project🐡Aug 22, 2024

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Bryan Steele

Aug 21, 2024

System call pinning is now mandatory in #OpenBSD -current, with execv(2) now rejecting binaries without a valid pintable.

deraadt@ modified src/sys/kern/exec_elf.c: If binaries lack a pintable, execve() can now reject them at startup by returning EINVAL, rather than at runtime when the first system call occurs (and then probably dumping core). Let's find out if there are any surprising exceptions we were unaware of (would need a custom linker, or a non-crt0 runtime)
errno discussions with kettenis, sthen, millert. Vague consensus it is
worth trying now.

Plus some additional cleanup in process flags, used in ps(1), to make available for future bits.

deraadt@ modified src/*: We do not need the PS_LIBCPIN and PS_PIN flag fields anymore, which were used during development (for visibility). There is speculation claudio will immediately use these bits for something else.

👽Etsh (V6Sh) Project🐡Aug 22, 2024

Via fortune(6) on OpenBSD...

A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).

Hahaha `fortune -s' always gives me a much needed laugh

👽Etsh (V6Sh) Project🐡Jul 12, 2024

Just a quick #EtshV6ShProject ( aka #v6shell ) FYI if I may...

*.etsh.nl & etsh.nl now redirect to *.etsh.dev & etsh.dev, with the following exceptions ... Both serenity.etsh.nl & serenity.etsh.dev redirect to serenity.openbsd.amsterdam ..

=^) This project is & has been hosted on OpenBSD Amsterdam ( @OpenBSDAms ) for a good long while now (^=

I am still working on the next release (hopefully before September). If I were more than 1 person with more than no time, it would have already seen the light of day. But you know... Such is life!

👽Etsh (V6Sh) Project🐡Jul 10, 2024

Bryan Steele

Jul 9, 2024

Finishing up some longstanding work started in 2022, Bob Beck committed a patch enabling namespaced (symbol hiding) builds by default for libssl and libcrypto for #LibreSSL in #OpenBSD -current.

beck@ modified src/lib/libcrypto/Makefile: Enable namespaced builds by default for libssl and libcrypto.

Some further refinements will happen to the build process to automatically generate the Symbols.namespace file, and to remove our last public unhidden symbol (which was a mistake, but waits for a major bump to get removed)

But for now everything should be using this.

ok tb@

In addition to a flurry of commits over the years hiding symbols, the initial commit notes:

Fully explained in libcrypto/README. TL;DR make sure libcrypto and libssl's function calls internally and to each other are via symbol names that won't get overridden by linking other libraries.

Mostly work by guenther@, which will currently be gated behind a build setting NAMESPACE=yes. once we convert all the symbols to his method we will do a major bump and pick up the changes.

ok tb@ jsing@

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/lib/libcrypto/hidden/README?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain

#OpenBSD uses an explicit list of symbols exported to help avoid unintentional namespace pollution for a number of base libraries, starting with libc in 2015.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144027244216927&w=2

👽Etsh (V6Sh) Project🐡May 15, 2024