4-Way Comparison of Compilation Performance on OpenBSD.

I recently bought the Asus ExpertBook B9400CEA. Buying newer hardware when using an operating system with a limited number of kernel developers like OpenBSD is always a bit of a gamble when it comes to how much will work as expected. This laptop looked like it was worth it. It seems to hit the sweet spot between portability, battery life, performance, and customizability (in my case especially multibooting with 2 separate M.2 SSD drives)...

http://portal.mozz.us/gemini/thfr.info/openbsd/Compile-Time-Comparison-Oct-2021/

#system #perf

What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD.

- How to have fun with the world’s most important free software project...
https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-every-it-person-needs-to-know.html

- Slides available here:
https://home.nuug.no/~peter/openbsd_needtoknow/#1

#system

Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD.

We want all our network traffic to through a WireGuard VPN tunnel automatically, both WireGuard client and server are running OpenBSD, how to do that? While I thought it was simple at first, it soon became clear that the "default" part of the problem was not easy to solve, fortunately there are solutions...

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-10-09-openbsd-wireguard-exit.html

#vpn #wireguard #network

🐡 OpenBSD 7.0 Released! #release

gqrss.

A tool to query and display GitHub issues relating to OpenBSD.

https://git.sr.ht/~qbit/gqrss

#system

Packaging the DMD D compiler for OpenBSD.

I will be giving a talk at DConf 2021 about the larger adventure of D on OpenBSD. So I won't spoil everything in this blog post, but this blog post will be a part of the larger talk...

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20211013.html

#d #dev

How to setup goaccess to get nice stats with OpenBSD httpd.

https://si3t.ch/log/2021-10-18-goaccess-setup.html

#goaccess #web

How BSD Authentication Works.

... OpenBSD on the other hand uses a mechanism called BSD Authentication. It was originally developed for a now-defunct proprietary operating system called BSD/OS by Berkeley Software Design Inc., who later donated the system. It was then adopted by OpenBSD in release 2.9. BSD Auth is comparatively much simpler than PAM. Modules or, authentication "styles", are instead stand alone applications or scripts that communicate over IPC. The module has no ability to interfere with the parent and can very easily revoke permissions using pledge(2) or unveil(2). The BSD Authentication system of configured through login.conf(5)...

https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/how-bsd-authentication-works/

#auth #system

#art (c)

OpenBSD Handbook. https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/ #link

OpenBSD on the HiFive Unmatched.

My desktop's power supply died, and rather than replace the ill-fated PSU I decided to go with something different. OpenBSD's new riscv64 port looked interesting, so I got a HiFive Unmatched to see how it would work as an OpenBSD desktop...

https://kernelpanic.life/hardware/hifive-unmatched.html

#desktop #system #hardware

OpenBSD Catchup 2021-11-03.

Interesting developments (in -current) since OpenBSD 7.0 include... https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20211103080052

#current #system

🐡 FuguIta.

FuguIta is a live system based on the OpenBSD operating system.

http://fuguita.org/

- FuguIta Start Guide: http://fuguita.org/index.php?FuguIta%2FStartGuide
- FuguIta-Guide: https://liquorstane.ynh.fr/fuguita/

#livecd #system

LiveUSB-OpenBSD.

It is trivial to a create a bootable USB stick with OpenBSD. I wanted to create one and realized that this will be of general use for anyone who likes a UNIX USB memory stick that they can carry with them on a keychain.

These LiveUSB images are based on 7.0 release of OpenBSD made on Oct 14,2021. Note that these are volunteer effort and strictly unofficial.

http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/

#livecd #liveusb #system

Running the Searx metasearch engine on OpenBSD.

Searx is a free metasearch engine. This means that it will aggregate search results from several search engines, like Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google or Qwant. But it will also use search engines from services like DailyMotion, DeviantArt, FramaLibre, GitHub, Reddit or Wikipedia to extract search results.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2021/running-the-searx-metasearch-engine-on-openbsd/

#searx

Running an ARM64 OpenBSD Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon

- Install an HVF-equipped build of QEMU.
- Download the OpenBSD 7 Install Image, сreate a new virtual disk.
- Set up the launch script, install OpenBSD.
- Set up host to guest SSH access.

https://codeofconnor.com/running-an-arm64-openbsd-virtual-machine-on-apple-silicon-with-qemu/

#system #install #apple

OpenBSD TOR Bridge.

TOR and Pluggable Transport installation.

https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/openbsd/

#tor #security

Running OpenBSD 7.0 on your laptop is really hard (not).

Instructions on this page will provide a nice xfce4 based desktop. I'm using it on a Thinkpad X220 with a 480Gb SSD and 8Gb RAM. The example command results and links are still pointing to 6.8/6.9 at present. I'll update these in a week or two...

https://sohcahtoa.org.uk/openbsd.html

#desktop #system #xfce