Tomorrow, Saturday, October 24, 2026, I'll be speaking at Linux Day in Modena, with a talk titled "Beyond Linux: A Journey Through the Open Source Ecosystem."

Will I talk about Linux? Of course. But I'll also talk about BSD, illumos, monocultures, and why we should never forget that there are always other paths worth exploring.

Linux proved that an alternative was possible. It would be a shame if that alternative became, in turn, a new imposition.

Because monocultures are a problem, even in the Open Source world. And because freedom isn't about everyone doing things the same way, but about being able to choose a different way.

Open Source and closed minds don't mix.

https://makeitmodena.comune.modena.it/makeitmodena/eventi/24-ottobre-2026-linux-day

#Linux #LinuxDay #IT #OwnYourData #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #LinuxDay2026

Domani, sabato 24 ottobre 2026, sarò al Linux Day di Modena con un intervento dal titolo «Oltre Linux: viaggio nell'ecosistema Open Source».

Parlerò di Linux? Certamente. Ma parlerò anche di BSD, illumos, di monoculture e di quanto sia importante non dimenticare che esistono sempre altre strade.

Linux ha dimostrato che un'alternativa era possibile. Sarebbe un peccato se quell'alternativa diventasse, a sua volta, una nuova imposizione.

Perché le monoculture sono un problema, anche nel mondo Open Source. E perché la libertà non è fare tutti le cose allo stesso modo, ma poter scegliere di farle diversamente.

Open Source e Closed Mind non vanno mai d'accordo.

https://makeitmodena.comune.modena.it/makeitmodena/eventi/24-ottobre-2026-linux-day

#Linux #LinuxDay #IT #OwnYourData #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #LinuxDay2026

A new dbupdate(8) utility is being backported and released as a syspatch(8) update for #OpenBSD 7.9/8.0. This will make it easier for users to periodically update /etc/ssl/cert.pem and /usr/share/zoneinfo. ​

It's also available as an errata patch: https://www.openbsd.org/errata80.html#p005_dbupdate

#eMudhra

What I like most on OpenBSD?

Transparency.

#openBSD

Upgraded my OpenBSD server to version 8.0 yesterday. My ssh session dropped, naturally, and I waited patiently with a

while true; do ssh my.server; sleep 5; done

After a really long time (5 minutes? 10 minutes? It felt like ages), I decided I had to learn how to connect to the console so that I could debug and fix the upgrade problems. Thankfully, @OpenBSDAms has made this really easy and Unix friendly:
ssh into the host and use vmctl. So easy. So cool!

Anyways, by the time I had done that and ran rcctl status ssh, it was up again. Everything had worked, syspgrade had run flawlessly.

I just should've had a little more patience.

#openbsd #unix

#OpenBSD

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@RootMoose/117480626201320622

Anyone seen this problem on OpenBSD with KDE before? Plasmashell crashes and just leaves a black desktop. Can start apps (like konsole via Ctrl+Alt+t).

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #KDEPlasma #KDE

AodeRelay boosted

Grunkle Moose » 🌐 2026-10-21
@RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@gregsie I'm out of time to work this today but I'm stuck with the startplasma-x11 stdout/error showing:

QProcess: Cannot create pipe (Too many open files)

Everything falls to crap in the log after this wrt "Failed to register with host portal" -> "Could not register app ID: App info not found" type errors which is either a red herring or useful.

I've got the base config for open files in login.conf and sysctl.conf set to ridiculously large numbers so I don't think it is a ulimit type thing? Or I'm missing something elsewhere.

Maybe turning away from it for a while will help.

Looks like #OpenBSD cannot supply a new /etc/ssl/cert.pem through their existing syspatch(8) mechansim. The upcoming solution seems to be a new dbupdate(8) script, which fetches selected "databases" from a /dbupdates/ directories on the mirrors: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/15cbf8b7c56f62e653ad919590ebb0d4f7272534

Another smooth upgrade in the books! 🐡✨

Successfully moved my bastion host from #OpenBSD 7.9 to 8.0. Base sets extracted, configs merged, packages updated, and syspatched back to full health.

Memory footprint sitting comfortably at ~170MB like nothing even happened. Huge thanks to the developers for making upgrades so rock-solid and predictable release after release!

#OpenBSD #BSD #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #Fastfetch #MastodonBSD

I always love that #openbsd `sysupgrade` takes less than 10 minutes, and `pkg_add -u` only takes a few minutes afterwards.

Its never a 'fingers crossed' situation and I think I love that the most.

I've given up on #OpenBSD already. Simple install, X works with #twm and #xfce but is a bitch with #plasma . No configurations work even with the kde-plasma hints for .xinitrc and .xsession. Just a grey launch screen with a mouse pointer in middle of the screen. This is in version 7.9 and also 8.0

ulimits, kernel file handlers, locale changes made. nothing works.

Has anyone a working .xinitrc file?

#fediHelp

Works perfectly on #FreeBSD 15.1

For the umpteenth time, the upgrade between #OpenBSD versions is marvellously smooth.

Thank you all for keeping it so wonderful and pleasant to run an OpenBSD machine.

My #thinkcentre and the #t480s are now both updated to #OpenBSD8. #EasyPeasy, no incidents.
#OpenBSD has really done a marvellous job in making an automated upgrade procedure.

@fionescu I think it’s time for an #openbsd fork and rewrite in #rust, start with Wayland and ZFS rewrite. Target Apple hardware first.

AodeRelay boosted

Viss » 🌐 2026-10-20
@Viss@mastodon.social

here's some info about the giant php bug dropping tomorrow:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/20/34

hopefully mastodon doesnt absolutely destroy the video quality, but it appears to be unauth php rce.

which means every firewall on the planet thats not patched thats just php under the hood and has its management interfaces exposed is potentially a target

If you're using #OpenBSD 8.0 #httpd and have manually configured “ciphers” delete them. #httpd is now secure and PQC by default

I only just now see the "art" of #OpenBSD 8.0... After a long while in which they weren't very clear with their AI policy but still seemed to be on the skeptical side, they decided in bad taste - but somehow predictable, considering the mainstay devs having grown up in a generation where it was "cool" to be or at least pretend being neither for nor against anything - to drop ironic slop...

Now would be the right time for a fork of OpenBSD that would take at least a bit more principled stance, but who got the time for that? Some are most probably just warming up now to fork Linux, when OpenBSD is more manageably small and hackable...

An experimental Wine port brings Windows app and gaming support to OpenBSD, with 64-bit applications and even The Witcher 3 running successfully.
https://linuxiac.com/wine-on-openbsd-yes-and-it-can-already-run-the-witcher-3/

#openbsd #opensource

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An experimental Wine port brings Windows app and gaming support to OpenBSD, with 64-bit applications and even The Witcher 3 running successfully.

Raspberry Pi 4 upgraded to OpenBSD 8.0.

Reboot after 'sysupgrade' took a few minutes , had me worried for a bit.

#OpenBSD #RaspberryPi

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade80.html

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Screenshot of 'fastfetch' command on OpenBSD 8.0, running on a Raspberry Pi 4

"Tianve" - HP-250 G3 Notebook
Operating System: OpenBSD 8.0 amd64
Desktop: LXQt 2.4.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.11.2
Graphics Platform: X11/xenocara

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=23dc29b97f

#runbsd #openbsd #fishlinux #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot #shareyourdesktop

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Screenshot of OpenBSD running LXQT as Desktop environment Styling: Qogir-Manjaro gtk2/3/xfwm, QT theming via qt6gtk2/qt5gtk2 LXQT Panel: Graphite Icons: Qogir-Manjaro Wallpaper: "Bloom" by @orbite There's a panel with some pinned icons floating on the left, next to it is audacious media player and a qterminal running a minimal neofetch with some system stats is displayed in upper right corner Intellihidden: at the bottom is a floating panel with two desktop switcher buttons and at floating panel with some window action icons. In the bottom right corner there's an OpenBSD Pufferfish icon (https://logodix.com/logos/1867876) labeled with LXQT Desktop and its logo. Above are two badges with slogans dealing with cancer.

sysupgraded, sysmerged, syspatched, pkg_add -ui "Tianve", my HP 250 G3 notebook to the latest OpenBSD 8.0 release.

All is well...

My best regards and biggest thanks to anyone on who worked on this release and upgrade experience.
Special thanks to @orbite for yet another great new abstract/geometric wallpaper.

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Tionisla

#RunBSD #OpenBSD

OpenBSD 8.0 released

Hot on the heels of Wine being ported to OpenBSD, we now have the release of OpenBSD 8.0. It adds hibernate support for arm64, switches the soarc64 toolchain to LLVM, and updates the DRM graphics drivers to Linux 6.18.53, which also adds support for Intel Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) graphics cards. There's a whole bunch of improvements, fixes, and changes for RISC-V and ARM in general, of cour

https://www.osnews.com/story/146200/openbsd-8-0-released/

#OpenBSD

If you are using the bwfm(4) #wifi driver on #OpenBSD, consider updating to -current soon, which just received some fixes for a crafted wifi frame injection issue where according the report "memcpy() then attempts to copy 0xfffffff0 bytes into a fresh mbuf cluster. [...] With datalen 0xfffffff0 and no received payload, the unpatched kernel [...] reset immediately to the boot loader".

Which sounds wild, but this reproducer injected fake ethernet frames into the driver via software hacks, and I don't have the patience to verify these claims with real hardware.

And of course, a PCI device has DMA access which means it can change kernel memory arbitrarily anyway unless the system has an iommu, which AFAIK OpenBSD does not use yet, at least not on amd64.

Not sure yet if there will be errata.

The Linux driver has some of the same bugs.

I read the Changelog. My preferred subjects (aka those I mostly understood) are:

• Added MP support to vmd.
• All qwx improvements.
• All relayd improvements.

Special (⊙_⊙) towards

Altered smtpd(8) code to avoid false bug reports from LLM scanners.

Thanks devs! Thanks bug-report peeps!

https://www.openbsd.org/80.html #OpenBSD #HYPE80 #RunBSD

https://youtu.be/xkHaUI5kAyA

#bsd #openbsd

The @OpenBSDAms@bsd.cafe fishtank was updated to 8.0, you can now jack in again on:

$ ssh puffy@fishtank.openbsd.amsterdam

Enjoy the sea creatures!

#OpenBSD #80hype

and of course the final line added later:

Stay gold pony boy. Stay gold.

#openbsd

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A picture of a newsprint color Garfield comic where he is reciting the Robert Forst poem "nothing gold can stay" and the joke is that the owner person uses a leaf blower at the end and ruins it, but also its meta because that is basically what the poem is about.

no gods no masters, includes openbsd

Like I know I shouldn't take things personally, but
with AI it's like that's the argument.
A non-person telling me to take something not-personally.

#openbsd

first south park, now openbsd, nothing is sacred.

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fish with legs and hands

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forbidden fish 1 year ago

#OpenBSD ... Undsrea Lreer ...?????!!!???!!

My sloppy-sense is tingling

(if you don't know what I'm looking at - https://www.openbsd.org/ <- image)

If you are into this, you should probably know #OpenBSD 8.0 is out! Yay! 🎇🎆

Now, let's update all the things!

So...I heard #OpenBSD has a new release 8.0 TODAY, and the latest Intel/AMD graphics cards work. I copied the install image to a USB drive and booted:

✅️ easy and intuitive install
✅️ FULL disk encryption, super easy
✅️ wired networking just works
✅️ X11 worked by default
✅️ full resolution hardware accelerated graphics, glxgears installed by default 😍
✅️ XFCE4 was easy to install, just required adding "exec startxfce4" in home directory .xsession
✅️ librewolf in repository
✅️ all the fine BSD utilities that I grew up with, including xv
✅️ solvespace, kicad, libreoffice, freecad, vlc, mpv, mplayer, mpg123, you name it likely it is there
✅️ This is UNIX, I know this!

bugs to figure out: uploading the screenshot did not work as librewolf cannot access my Downloads directory for some reason. XFCE4 has the same problem attempting to set the desktop background. Other than default mouse acceleration stops the touchpad from working after several minutes every time. Need to figure out how to get wireless working, might be a simple procedure.

Financial summary of our #Git hosting service based on #OpenBSD and #GameOfTrees in Q3/2026:

Our financial situation is profitable. Our expenses with 3 production
servers (web, mail, repositories) are now fully covered by our subscriber
base. Our one and only repository server is almost booked out.

There is not enough money left over to pay anyone for their time working
on the project so we remain in full volunteer mode. We will keep a buffer
to prepare for renting additional servers once this becomes necessary.

Expenses:

Total hosting costs in Q3 2026: 781€

Payment processor fees: 52.66€

EU VAT: 147.11€

Amount total: 980.77€

Funds received from subscribers in Q3 2026:

EU amount total: 701.00€

non-EU amount: 454.00€

Amount total: 1155.00€

Funds received on #OpenCollective in Q3 2026:

EU amount total: 538.65€

non-EU amount: 171.50€

Amount total: 710.15€

# sysupgrade
# syspatch
# sysmerge
# pkg_add -ua
# reboot
#

Procession of Fools \\ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, #OPENBSD!

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #analognowhere #phone_bad_book_good #mobilek #ai

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Girl to Fish: Master I did all the work! Fish: All the work? Girl: YES! CAN I GO OUTSIDE AND WATCH THE PARADE NOW PLS? Fish: What parade? Girl: The AI one? Fish: Sure, whatever. it's a parade. jugglers, rope walkers, magicians, banner carries with conflicting messages, what have you Penguin: I can't believe he lets you watch this. Girl: it's educational

It begins! Happy release day!

#openbsd

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Picture of a terminal screen that has fetched all the OpenBSD file sets for upgrading to OpenBSD 8.0 which was released today.

If you're looking for some #OpenBSD #80HYPE I have a summary post from earlier this month. ​

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117407035545900963

Let the fun begin!

#OpenBSD #RunBSD

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Upgrading my Acer laptop to OpenBSD 8.0

Happy OpenBSD 8.0 release day to all who celebrate!

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261020021401 + https://www.openbsd.org/80.html
#openbsd #newrelease #development #security #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware

From the #OpenBSD 8.0 changelog:
...

- VMM/VMD improvements:
o Added MP support for up to 64 VCPUs per guest VM.
o Redesigned to use files to manage VM ownership.
o Added x2apic mode support for guest virtual machines.
o Fix for when vmd(8) does not detect kernel on startup.
o Provide faulting GPA to vmd(8) for MMIO exits from vmm(4).
o Refactored vmm(4) exit handling and correct RIP adjustment.
o Added support for variable length instructions in VMX paths to
vmm(4).
o Prevent OOB reads by vmd(8) in 32 and 64-bit elf(5) loaders with
malformed elf(5) files.
o Implemented missing lapic/ioapic modes to fix vmd(8) support for
32-bit linux guests.
o Added checksum offload for vmd(8) guests.
o MSI/MSI-X virtio device interrupt support added.
o Support actually split split-virtqueues in vmd(8).
o Added i82093aa ioapic and i82489dx-compatible lapic emulation to
vmd(8).
o Improved qcow handling.

This is a game changer!

Now that the new release is out, "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html (or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html) has been updated (version numbers incremented) #openbsd #installing #maintaining #freesoftware #libresoftware #security #developement

OpenBSD 8.0 Released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261020021401 #openbsd #newrelease #development #security #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware

The 61st OpenBSD release is here... 8.0!

https://www.
openbsd.org/80.html

Start your sysupgrade engines!
Incredible work has been done on vmd(8)/vmm(4)!
And of course many many other fixes and features.

Artwork by yvaneht nioj and clanker

#OpenBSD #RUNBSD

You should know #OpenBSD has released the following security patches:

035: RELIABILITY FIX
In ppp(4), an off-by-one error could lead to an out-of-bounds write.

036: RELIABILITY FIX
By providing malformed config mode payloads, a malicious IKEv1 peer could crash isakmpd(8) due to an out-of-bounds read.

037: SECURITY FIX
Backport security fixes from nsd(8) version 4.15.3.

1/2 🧵

Awesome... 😃

https://www.openbsd.org/80.html

#openbsd #runbsd

Surprise! 🎉​ #OpenBSD 8.0 is released! Happy release day! ​ 🐡​

https://www.openbsd.org/80.html

This is the 61st release of OpenBSD. Now get to upgrading/installing on all your machines. ​

Announcement mail: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=179245843570316&w=2