#BSDCan 2025 registration is open!
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
The schedule of amazing talks with a great selection of #FreeBSD , #NetBSD , and #OpenBSD topics will be up shortly!
Registration is open for #bsdcan, program published - see the blog post at https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for details, or go to https://bsdcan.org (direct to registration link: https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/registrations/8/) #bsd #unix #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #development #devops #sysadmin #freesoftware #libresoftware
@Em0nM4stodon @keepassxc And #OpenBSD. I sync it using Nextcloud from Mac to OpenBSD to Windows to Kali. Brilliant piece of software.
Now that it's official, I can announce it - although I may have dropped a few hints earlier! :-)
My talk "Why (and how) we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" has been accepted, and I’ll be honored to present it in June at BSDCan in Ottawa.
The joy of meeting BSD friends in person again (and those I haven’t had the chance to meet live yet) will be immense, and the honor of sharing my story in Canada is truly beyond measure, especially considering the level of other talks and all the people attending.
Of course, I’ll be bringing various BSD Cafe gadgets with me!
For more information, here’s @mwl 's post with further details: https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/
[2023] How OpenBSD’s malloc helps the developer - Otto Moerbeek
#TIL about inotifywait!
Perl was BAE
You should try OpenBSD, though, to appreciate unixy simplicity.
For example: Bluetooth. All that complex pairing, trusting, connecting, and then trying to route the audio to bluetooth.
#OpenBSD's solution? NO BLUETOOTH! Done!
Let's take another one: filesystem journaling. Lots of complexity trying to make an fs more stable. Replaying the journal and all that. OpenBSD's solution? No journal! Surely you MEANT to power off your server suddenly.
Reducing complexity makes the code more understandable, or something...
It's GLORIOUS!!
#OpenBSD/arm64 7.7-beta on Apple M1 MacBook Air, with some bonus heresy. 
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟯/𝟭𝟳 (Valuable News - 2025/03/17) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/valuable-news-2025-03-17/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
Anyone else seeing #OpenBSD syslog performing a PTR lookup for it's own(the syslog servers: PTR? xxx.xxx.168.192.in-addr.arpa ) IP address with every remote syslog item received (using -u)
This feels like a recent change as my own DNS server rate limited me after a recent syspatch
I got tired of using Debian on my desktop. Frequent crashes and outdated software. So I installed #OpenBSD on a separate SSD and everything works. My only compromise is I need to use DRM-free media. I still use Debian for video games for the same reasons that a Linux user would keep Windows 10 years ago. But for schoolwork OpenBSD works perfectly fine, and I have plenty of music files and downloaded series. I had a few issues with my USB microphone and webcam but I fixed that easily.
I don’t know why I haven’t done this sooner, I’ve always imagined myself using FreeBSD on the desktop before OpenBSD because of the nostalgia, but the lack of 802.11ac support is problematic.
Debian publishes refreshed media for Bookworm
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.#distrowatch #linux #android #bsd #unix #distro #distros #distributions #ubuntu #debian #suse #opensuse #fedora #redhat #centos #mageia #knoppix #gentoo #slackware #freebsd #openbsd
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
A more robust raw OpenBSD syscall demo
Ted Unangst published dude, where are your syscalls? on flak yesterday, with a neat demonstration of OpenBSD’s pinsyscall security feature, whereby only pre-registered addresses are allowed to make system calls. Whether it strengthens or weakens security is up for debate, but regardless it’s an interesting, low-level programming challenge. The original demo i
https://www.osnews.com/story/141927/a-more-robust-raw-openbsd-syscall-demo/
@vwbusguy The question is what motivates people to contribute to a given entity.
If an organization feeds the homeless, and I think that is a noble endeavor, I want to give to support it.
I use #GoToSocial and #OpenBSD and give to those projects (and in the case of OpenBSD, to its foundation).
Like you I am a regular user of Fedora, but Red Hat isn't asking us to donate to support the project.
Maybe Fedora is not the same as Firefox, but they are alike in some ways.
Newer #OpenBSD/luna88k snapshot based on Mar-1 tree is available!
I reiterate, now that #openbsd -current is 7.7-beta (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250302115123) it's a fine time to fetch a snapshot and test all the nice improvements. #openbsd #current #upcomingrelease #77beta #development #testing #freesoftware #libresoftware
