With Microsoft pushing their supercharged spyware soon, today is - like any other day - perfect to make the switch to #OpenBSD. The sane, well-documented, secure OS that isn't bloated and doesn't spy on you.
What a wonderful conversation, discussing BSDs, communities and the joy of using cough legacy software, with @stefano, @gyptazy and a few more people whose handles I don't know yet.
The 20th BSDCan will include tutorials on PF, running your own email, TLS, BGP, and NSH, as well as two days of talks on everything from systems administration, networking, and programming.
I've been buying these little boxes from AliExpress for years to use as firewalls and routers. My oldest one is almost 9 years old now! OpenBSD installs just fine. Just a BIOS tweak to always boot up after power is restored.
It is nice to be able to move a VM from #FreeBSD to :omnios: #Omnios in a snap using the network just because they both ship with #ZFS and #bhyve. It nearly feels like vMotion.
It's been an incredibly intense week, and it's only Wednesday. This morning, I had to drive 200 km through icy fog and heavy traffic. However, this afternoon was dedicated to setting up a FreeBSD server.
The client wanted to retain some of the features from their old Linux system. I came up with the idea of directly passing the two physical disks to bhyve and booting them. The boot was immediate, and there were no issues. The new FreeBSD server was up and running, and the 'old' Linux was now operating as a VM, working perfectly on the physical disks.
The client was pleased with the outcome and asked me to set up a native FreeBSD desktop, encrypted because they will store important data. I hadn't installed a FreeBSD desktop recently, but it turned out to be easier than expected (no wifi involved).
I installed xorg, the Nvidia drivers, nvidia-xconfig (which generated the configuration file perfectly), kde5, sddm, Firefox, LibreOffice, the Nextcloud client, and made a few small adjustments to get the keyboard audio buttons working. Even suspend/resume functionality worked flawlessly, which amazed the client.
I then created a jail on the server and set up zfs-autobackup to back up the client's PC on the server (of course, on an encrypted dataset). Time to go home, satisfied with the outcome.
Apple Mac mini (M1, 2020)
Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, M2, 2022)
Apple MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
Apple MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020)
Apple MacBook Pro (13-inch, M2, 2022)
Apple MacBook Pro (14-inch, M1 Pro/Max, 2021)
Apple MacBook Pro (14-inch, M2 Pro/Max, 2023)
Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch, M1 Pro/Max, 2021)
Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch, M2 Pro/Max, 2023)
Apple MacBoot Air (15-inch, M2, 2023)
Apple Studio (M1 Max/Ultra, 2022)
Apple iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021)
Banana Pi BPI-M5
NanoPi A64
NanoPi R5S
Orange Pi PC2
Orange Pi Zero Plus
Pine64 H64
Pine64 Pine 64/64+
Pine64 Pinebook
Pine64 ROCK64
Pine64 ROCKPro64
Pinebook Pro
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7cx
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3
Raspberry Pi 3
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
Raspberry Pi 4
Raspberry Pi 400
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
In the coming days, we'll be adding more hacking tools for arm64. Stay tuned for updates!
What should I be doing? Going to sleep, or carrying on with any one of the 5 other projects I've already started.
What am I doing? Installing #openBSD on a #LattePanda Alpha my wife found in the attic.
All seems to work, even the, once I stopped being stupid, network via the USB-C dock it's connected to. Means that with one USB-C cable everything works: power, mouse, keyboard, network and 4k screen.
It truly is amazing how much you can do for the #BSD community in a #MSFT, #GOOGL, #AMZN, #IBM ( and friends ) sponsored #FOSS event of the year, with no:
The smallest things are always the ones that cause the biggest impact.
Let this be my public shout out and acknowledgement of the great work that the people behind #RUNBSD do to spread the word on #BSD
You have my uttermost respect and heartfelt gratefulness
It is your (and truly "yours only") altruistic and continued support that has enabled me to introduce dozens of people into the #BSD world. And I couldn't be more grateful for that!
Being part of the fediverse is great, but running mastodon for a single user instance is not the best fit in terms of maintenance and required resources.
So I'm happy to share that I succesfully deployed both gotosocial and snac2 on openbsd. Both are tiny, lighweight ActivityPub servers that I wll try out the coming weeks/months.
Well, it took most of last evening and a decent chunk of today but I managed to adapt a blog post and some patches for getting OpenBSD 7.0 running on the pinebook-pro to get OpenBSD 7.4 running on mine, so I'll be blogging about it shortly. #runbsd#openbsd
With my new-old router I'm now runnings two machines with #BSD at home, not counting Macs. What's the socially acceptable number of BSDs to be running before you're allowed to apply for your #RunBSD sticker?