My inaugural article for the BSD Journal is slated for publication - it will be released Monday morning.

The first authors are already being granted their accounts to contribute new, engaging content - by the community, for the community.

Stay tuned!

What is the best way to install #OpenBSD with 2 SSD with the first drive for OS and programs and second drive for storage of files but able to remove second drive and connect to other OpenBSD systems to read/write the drive?

When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering https://lobste.rs/s/xzxxng #openbsd #security
https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-immutable-system-logs/

"Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/recent-and-not-so-recent_changes_in_openbsd_that_make_life_better.html and "The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blog_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html - two 2021-vintage pieces of mine that are still relevant, unfortunately/fortunately #openbsd #windows11 #freesofware #libresoftware #softwarefreedom #sovereigncomputing

When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250718072438 #openbsd #immutable #chflags #logs #logtampering #security #hacking

New blog post: When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering

Started as curiosity about "dead" kernel code, ended up solving real-world log tampering problems. Sometimes the best security features are hiding in plain sight.

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-immutable-system-logs/

This question is for anyone that manages their own servers and monitors the health of services.

What is your preferred method of receiving alerts?

stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250717103345 #openbsd #stdio #file #libraries #libtls #libtls #libcrypto #development #current #freesoftware #libresoftware

#OpenBSD now supports Intel E823-L Ethernet devices, a variant of the E810 devices supported by the ice(4) driver.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=175274391607699&w=2

There are more variants which could likely be supported with relatively low effort: E823-C, E822-C, E822-L, and E825-C. If anyone has such devices available for testing remotely or by shipping a device to me, please let me know.

Font caching no longer runs as root https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250717061920 #openbsd #security #fonts #caching #privilegedrop #fontcache

Another simple article about #OpenBsd

"Setup Mullvad VPN on OpenBSD via WireGuard"

https://btxx.org/posts/openbsd-mullvad/

I've also included an on-going list of OpenBSD specific articles on my about page section (mostly for my own ease-of-use)

after more than 15 years I am playing again with #openbsd and #freebsd :)

Why did they do that? #openbsd #unix #grep

EuroBSDcon 2025 Scedule published: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

Register at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/zagreb/

General info: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/

Where + when : Zagreb, Croatia; September 25-28, 2025

#eurobsdcon #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware

(again for the ones in the back or in far flung time zones or vacation mode which turns out the same)

I didn't write about it yet, but I'm going to use #xemacs #emacs through #occ25 http://occ.deadnet.se/ #retrocomputing
@mattof @prahou @solene
What's everyone else doing?

(Er... Download.. sumo tarball... pui-list-packages ... ilisp ... <enter> ... x .. customize-variable ... inferior-lisp-program .. ecl)

The joke being that xemacs is actively developed and #openbsd provides the 2025 release. But I think xemacs reflects the values of the #oldComputerChallenge (and my sysctl hw.setperf=0)

Vermaden’s Valuable News: A Monday Must-Read

Mondays are always tough, I think that’s true for everyone. But one thing that makes me happy it’s Monday is the consistent arrival of the “Valuable News” from Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak – or simply Vermaden – @vermaden – as we know him. His newsletter covers the world of *BSD and Unix, technology in general, and offers a look at articles (both old and new) about the world and life in general.

Vermaden has been publishing his weekly newsletter for many years, and it’s a go-to […]

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/07/15/vermadens-valuable-news-a-monday-must-read/

Our first server for #git repository hosting with #gameoftrees has been installed in Hamburg, Germany. It is hosted by https://www.bsws.de

It was in fact installed last week already but it took a few days and another visit to the datacenter to sort out UEFI serial console redirection shenanigans which interfered with booting our #OpenBSD installation from softraid crypto on top of GPT.

Now we are ready to go