🐡 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 」
「 This is a list of software and ideas developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project, sorted in order of approximate introduction. Some of them are explained in detail in our research papers 」
Since Relayd/Httpd don't support proxing requests to external hosts, I wrote my own dedicated Proxy Webserver - also as an excuse to write my first thing in #GoLang. It works! Only 4 evenings :-)
Since I can now use @plausible on the new host, I will touch my proxy a bit tomorrow and on Monday I am pointing my DNSes to @OpenBSDAms.
Also, this Golang is a cool guy, not gonna lie. I have zero confidence in myself doing anything bigger in it, but it's not impossible now.
@ms Love to see your dedication for this project! Golang is a great language, you will soon feel much more confindent. It is so simple that you will soon code while you sleep.
Also, I'm really jealous that you now run your stuff on cool #OpenBSD machines 🙂 Let us know how it goes, I'm really interested in their offering.
Frustrated in that I can't seem to get #OpenBSD to boot on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon (7th gen). It installs fine, but it seems no amount of bios fiddling will allow it to boot after install (with or without FDE).
I did buy the X1 7th gen because of @jcs's instructions at https://jcs.org/2019/08/14/x1c7 - and followed them, just get nothing, no matter what I try to boot to or what options in the bios I change.
FreeBSD boots and #Kubuntu boots. :\ Back to Kubuntu again for a while. Wasted time is sometimes just wasted time.
can someone ELI5 why #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #NetBSD don't share package manager? I get that they need need different binaries, but why each has their own way to package install?
So, there are a few things on this planet which are worse than MLDv2. Like facebook, for example.
But there aren't that many such things, and one near the top of that list has to be MLDv1
Yesterday I've found out about https://openbsd.amsterdam/. #OpenBSD folks, what is the consensus here? I'm currently using Vultr but I love smaller companies tightly integrated into community. Amsterdam checks all boxes. Can someone using their services share some experiences?
@seninha Today's musings on #MLVWM reminds me, I really like your X11 applications and definitely need to start using XFiles. IIRC, there's no #OpenBSD port in 7.3-stable yet, correct?
While I want the classic System 6/MacOS 7/8/9 simplicity for my desktop environment (currently MLVWM w/iDesk, stalonetray, and some misc utilities), I prefer lightweight software following the UNIX philosophy to allow users to add or replace components as they see fit. Yours do that so well!
I've just finished reading "Relayd and Httpd mastery" by @mwl and it cemented my plan to move to #OpenBSD. https://test.sapka.me is already working and https://michal.sapka.me will soon follow. I like the Relayd + Httpd + acme-client setup much better than whatever #nginx tries to achieve by trying to be everything.
It's the first book of his I've read - "Absolute FreeBSD" and "Ed mastery" were also great. I don't know of any other indie tech writer but I dig his writing so much! The fact, that he may be the only writer treating #BSD (my recent love) seriously makes it even easier. After finishing "Relayd.." I've instantly bought his "Tarsnap mastery". Highly recommended!
I've been thinking about an adventure with #selfhosted#email and guess what? MWL is working on a book about it!
In the meantime (so: yesterday) I migrated my personal laptop from #FreeBSD to #OpenBSD. I had to force legacy UEFI and disable Nvidia but everything just works. WiFi, hibernation, even media keys. I am floored!
I’ll start digging into the #openbsd pkg_add source soon, but it generally takes me a while to find appropriate code in its Perl modules. In the meantime, trying to determine why pkg_add -u doesn’t seem to update PKG_CACHE if I delete a file, but pkg_add -nu does. Also, will it install from the cache, or only download to it?
I've been playing with #OpenBSD recently and I love it. Things just work! Enable HTTPS on Httpd (webserver) and PF (firewall) opens 443. Magic!
Long story short: https://test.sapka.me. There are a few things I still need to fix, like broken chain of trust between Relayd and Httpd but I will move https://michal.sapka.me there eventually. I still really like #FreeBSD, but it seems #OpenBSD is simply easier.
@ms I also have a blog running on #OpenBSD. I use nginx from packages because I could not get httpd to work with isso (the commenting system). That was in 2017, and I guess it would be possible with relayd, however. https://static-dust.klpn.se/