If you too have #BSD (#OpenBSD, #FreeBSD, #NetBSD or related) material you want to present and would like to go to #Ottawa end May to start of June to do that and hang out with other BSD people, go to https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/papers.php and follow the submission instructions until Monday February 12th.
It was just an email, rather than an issue or bug and someone took some efforts to look up my mail and to write me. It made me very happy & we should much more honour the work of others! It reminded me of how much we now take software for granted in our daily life. Things we do and handle our daily business... Even if we don't donate anything or only small amounts, we should always show respect for the time and effort of the author and maintainer. Even a small personalized email can bring great joy :)
Hi there, folks. I've moved back to #Fosstodon yet again.
I'm a #DevOps guy, who used to be a Linux #sysadmin for many years before that. I run #OpenBSD :openbsd: and #GrapheneOS :GrapheneOS: on my personal devices.
I post random thoughts and dumb jokes. And I think up unlikely #infosec vulnerabilities.
BSDCan 2024 will be held 31 May - 1 June (Fri-Sat), 2024 in Ottawa,
at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two
days of tutorials on 29-30 May (Wed-Thu).
Also: do not miss out on the Goat BOF on Tuesday 28 May.
For the safety of speakers and attendees, this conference will again
follow the mask policy outlined at https://bsdcan.org.
「 OpenBSD remains a crucial yet largely unacknowledged player in the open source field. This talk aims to highlight the project's signature security features and development practices -- razor sharp focus on correct and secure code coupled with continuing code audit -- as well as the project's role as source of innovation in security practices and 'upstream' source for numerous widely used components such as OpenSSH, PF, LibreSSL and others 」
Hey #BSD friends. I want to try some bsd as my daly driver. Work and everything and I need some help to find live systems to try on my hardware. Any recomendation? #freebsd, #openbsd, #netbsd will work for me.
I don't have sympathy for #OpenBSD or #LibreSSL. However, I can understand that they had good reasons to fork OpenSSL, and that switching back today would be hard. I can understand projects refusing to officially declare support and rejecting workarounds.
OTOH, pushing LibreSSL hate to the point of blocking Python implementations that don't link to OpenSSL is just horrible. Users get in the crossfire, again.
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
🐡 2006: de Raadt, the suits, and the rebellion
—ZDNet
「 Linux is immensely more popular than all of the open source BSD versions. De Raadt says that's partly because Linux gets support from big hardware makers like Hewlett-Packard and IBM, which he says have turned Linux hackers into an unpaid workforce 」
#Debian is for the reasonable adult in me. #OpenBSD is for the radical in me that has actual taste in software and doesn't care that I can't meet every tiny need.
(edit: oh and they apparently also release a custom shirt every release too https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html ...site hasn't been updated for a few versions tho! but store is selling latest)
I'm thinking of trying out running #OpenBSD on a server instead of #Ubuntu, because Derek Sivers recommended it for its security (particularly around the more controlled packaging).
I have basically zero experience with BSD, but a ton with #linux (redhat, ubuntu, arch, centos, amazon linux, etc.).
Any advice on making the transition? Is this a good move or unnecessary or bad?