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Works fine on my phone. Maybe it's you.
On my phone there is text to the right of the image, forcing horizontal scrolling
Oh god, the horror!
OpenBSD 7.9
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Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#302> Enabled IPv6 autoconf (SLAAC) by default. Sweet! I’m just about to replace pfsense with openbsd on my router. Smoothly setting up ipv6 is a bit of a headscratcher atm, mainly because i’ve never had to understand it before.
I recently updated an older OpenBSD router and firewall and the amount of native IPv6 support right out of the box makes this an unbelievable breeze.
Nice. Would you mind explaining your current config?
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
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huh? I've been running Arch exclusively on my laptops for at least 7 years
Thinkpad? Or dell? How is the battery life?
Let's see, System 76, previously Dell and Samsung.
All the pretty much the smallest and lightest I could find. So not fantastic, but good enough. For me, battery life is much lower on the list than "small and lightweight" and "works well with Linux".
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
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Oh this is a wonderful and succinct summary; thanks!
It's also superficial and wrong, and as bad as dividing people up by hair colour into blondes, brunettes, and redheads. The way that the BSDs differentiate cannot be reduced in this way, not least because there is a lot of what Justin C. Sherrill (of the DragonFly Digest) calls 'cross-pollination' amongst the BSDs. A case in point: Superficially, and erroneously, one might observe that OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD ha…
Yes, you're not at all wrong! However my goal is not to definitively 100% know the exact differences between the BSDs...i merely wanted to seek out a quick/easy starting point (the very high level diffs)...so that i can start *somewhere* and hopefully avoid my paralysis by analysis. :-)
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
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Thanks! And, wow, do i miss the old X-window workstations...well, i should clarify that i LOVED those (I think they were Sparc?) workstations that ran Solaris or SunOS back in the day! Man, that takes me back some years...but i really loved those machines! :-)
It's worth mentioning at this point that one can still get (Open)Solaris descendent operating systems: OmniOS, SmartOS, and Tribblix. The latter still has SPARC in its installation guide. * https://tribblix.org/install-sparc.html
Oh wow, that's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!
Another part of my nostalgia with those old workstations (besides the core OS) was the desktop environment, i think CDE or motif or something like that. Something about the look and feel of that DE i always thought was cool!
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
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Pretty much any OS would be just as stable if it's just serving DNS/DHCP.
As someone who has run DNS and DHCP servers... unfortunately, no. Shit happens, and choices still do matter. Even if it feels it should be simple, Linux has a way. My experience has been that Openbsd is rock solid, so are its implementations of the relevant server daemons.
Going off of "data" from r/uptimeporn I can only conclude that Cisco makes the most stable software of all time.
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Hey pjmlp (waves), I know you've been an advocate for OSes and languages that are outside of the mainstream. I finally got around to living in plan9... My experiment, a social network for plan9 written in rc and some awk. https://github.com/dharmatech/9social
Cool! Trying out new ideas is very good way to open mindsets, even if those systems aren't used regularly, they serve as inspiration for future improvements. The video is kind of interesting.
Thanks for checking it out, pjmlp!
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh this is a wonderful and succinct summary; thanks!
It's also superficial and wrong, and as bad as dividing people up by hair colour into blondes, brunettes, and redheads. The way that the BSDs differentiate cannot be reduced in this way, not least because there is a lot of what Justin C. Sherrill (of the DragonFly Digest) calls 'cross-pollination' amongst the BSDs. A case in point: Superficially, and erroneously, one might observe that OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD ha…
It is a generalization of the essentials, and not wrong.
You know even though I said the execution is unlike linux, in fact, there are many many details that are just like linux! What a freaking ignorant liar eh? There's like 100 things like that you could say. No wait, no way it's exactly 100. There's obviously some other number like 105 or 612 things like that. So superficial and wrong!
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
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OpenBSD supports sparc very well and is compatible with old sunos stuff (iirc). Unfortunately no 68k anymore (okay, technically there's a niche flavour of 68k that still is supported because of a very dedicated man in Japan)
> OpenBSD supports sparc very well and is compatible with old sunos stuff (iirc) No 32-bit sparc anymore (only UltraSPARC, aka sparc64). No SunOS compatibility (despite Theo de Raadt inventing it for NetBSD, before being copied by other BSDs). https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=161435521906992&w=2 > Technically there's a niche flavour of 68k that still is supported because of a very dedicated man in Japan luna88k, w…
Modern operating system booting on hardware that is closing in on 40 years old in just over three minutes, this is wild to see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btwiiZw3B2s
Kenji Aoyama truly is aligned with the best of the hacker spirit. As for getting your hands on a luna88k, I have no clue. The only thing I managed to find was a broken one that sold for ~USD 750 at an online auction.
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
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> OpenBSD supports sparc very well and is compatible with old sunos stuff (iirc) No 32-bit sparc anymore (only UltraSPARC, aka sparc64). No SunOS compatibility (despite Theo de Raadt inventing it for NetBSD, before being copied by other BSDs). https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=161435521906992&w=2 > Technically there's a niche flavour of 68k that still is supported because of a very dedicated man in Japan luna88k, w…
Modern operating system booting on hardware that is closing in on 40 years old in just over three minutes, this is wild to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btwiiZw3B2s Kenji Aoyama truly is aligned with the best of the hacker spirit. As for getting your hands on a luna88k, I have no clue. The only thing I managed to find was a broken one that sold for ~USD 750 at an online auction.
If you're interested, you should check out Miod Vallat's Motorola 88k story.
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k.html
One interesting bit of trivial is Luna-88k workstations were heavily used to implement CMU Mach (which would eventually be used by Apple).