🧵 …although I tend to favour OpenBSD and Linux for personal reasons, I find this decision OK. Certain open source projects lack clear, reasoned positions and decisions.
»NetBSD’s New Policy – No Place for AI-Created Code:
NetBSD bans AI-generated code to preserve clear copyright and meet licensing goals.«
sshd(8) split into multiple binaries- "After this changes, the listener binary will validate the configuration, load the hostkeys, listen on port 22 and manage MaxStartups only. All
session handling will be performed by a new sshd-session binary that the listener fork+execs." https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240517092416#openbsd
Would be a free public shell account service based on #FreeBSD/#OpenBSD systems interesting for you? If yes, what would you run on it?
Please provide feedback, so @gyptazy can check if it makes sense to provide such a service (this is already available in a limited beta).
What to expect:
A free user login to a FreeBSD or #OpenBSD based system where multiple users can access it at the same time. You can do everything in your own home directory, run processes, open sockets, compile stuff etc. System is managed in general for you.
What you cannot do:
Make changes to the system in general, use low ports, install or modify things system wide.
So, my actively used computer fleet is as follows now:
Main desktop, for gaming and general use. Bonkers fast brand new Ryzen 9 and high end Radeon. Runs Fedora KDE.
Laptop - the mini Intel N100 laptop I reviewed. I love this tiny 10"-er so, so much (context, Thom!). Fedora KDE.
Workstation. My awesome dual-Xeon machine with a Radeon Pro w5700, 4K display, and gobs of cores. Runs #OpenBSD with Xfce now. For work, located in my office.
The spare parts box, built from some previous machines' parts. Runs Windows 10 now, sadly, specifically for League of Legends. Uses my previous 1440p 144Hz display.
I have a million other machines, too, but they're not in use. My wife has computers, too of course. Our house is uh, a bit of a computery place.
Got me an old but new-to-me AsRock A300 DeskMini PC with a Ryzen 2400G. Microsoft says "bah, too old for Windows 11" which is how I got it (traded my HP mini PC that is Win11 supported to a friend who needs Win11 for work-from-home).
What to do with it? Why, run #OpenBSD of course!! I'm thinking minimalist backup workstation with cwm or i3 and as little else as possible that isn't in base already.
Firefox is a given, but apart from it and its dependencies what else would I really need? Thoughts? Opinions? Hit me.
Also noticed that #DNSCrypt provides a large amount of binary distributions for #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonFlyBSD, #Solaris, among several other OSs, plus many architecture-specific binaries. That is really nice! Next thing will be deploying it on the beastie server.
I keep asking dumb #OpenBSD questions, because you awesome nerds keep answering them so well. It's your fault.
Anyway, someone has already made a port for LXQt 2.0.0. How does the rest of the process work, and how long does it generally take for such work to make it into ports/binary packages?
Migrated one of my #OpenBSD VMs to @OpenBSDAms . Super fast setup process, well documented and works like a charm. 100% in line with OpenBSD's sane defaults.
On this #AppleEvent day, I want to say that I'm still very impressed with #Apple's technical achievements. Like mini-LED displays on the #iPadPro before, the "tandem OLED" is a smart solution. With their fancy event presentations, Apple makes everything seem obvious, but it's clear that — while many have been loudly proclaiming dissatisfaction that Apple hadn't switched to OLED already — they've been focusing on creating the best in looking/performing/efficient display they can manufacture.
@nicky Yup, still using #MLVWM on #OpenBSD. My current workstation -- aside from my iPad -- is a 2015 13in MacBook Air (dual-core i7) and it also is good at not gulping electricity (though not quite the dainty sips of the iPad.)
I take it the “run macOS on an iPad” situation is still “should technically be possible, some people managed it, but a truckload of work to make work in practice”? Or is there something like the jailbreak installers of old that make it risky but straightforward?
@oktawian@uliwitness I have spent the last year using a 2.2GHz dual-core i7 MacBook Air with 8GB RAM (soldered) as my primary workstation and it's not as bad as one might think. I do run a pretty light-weight OS (#OpenBSD) and X11 WM (#MLVWM), but the former isn't the most I/O optimized OS and even it's barely noticeable when it starts swapping. I always oversize SSD storage though, to delay failure through wear-leveling.