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Re: OpenBSD 7.9

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Post by CodeCompost »

seethishat wrote: post #42
clbrmbr wrote: post #10

Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).

I run it. Home firewall, office desktops and laptops. It's pretty stable and I'm fairly familiar with it. Really simple if you know Unix. I hope it never goes away, not sure what I would replace it with. Linux is so complicated now, it's just too much for me to deal with

What software do you run on your desktops and laptops?

Re: OpenBSD 7.9

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Post by packetlost »

tiffanyh wrote: post #21

> Replaced the cas spinlock in kernel mutexes with a "parking" lock. Anyone know what a "parking lock" is (and how it works)? I couldn't find anything on the man pages about it. https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.5/lock.9 https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.9/mutex.9

It's a lock/mutex implementation that puts the blocked thread to sleep, usually via cooperative yielding to the scheduler instead of continuing to perform CAS operations on the lock continuously. Spinlocks have great performance when they're not heavily contended and the locks are held for short periods of time, but if either of those things are true the blocked thread can easily consume an entire CPU core while it's blocked.

Re: OpenBSD 7.9

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Post by ectospheno »

clbrmbr wrote: post #10

Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).

I use it for home router, my laptop, several vms for various services, and on one vps I keep around should I need to quickly set something up. I keep a proxmox server for anything I can’t or won’t run on OpenBSD.

Re: OpenBSD 7.9

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Post by whalesalad »

clbrmbr wrote: post #10

Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).

I needed to create a backdoor network-level KVM contraption to help my dad relocate some servers. tl;dr an office was closing down, he pulled the rack and stood it up in his basement. I mailed him a unifi edgerouter 4 that was reflashed to run openbsd. On boot it would create a vpn tunnel to a vps and basically expose a public WAN port to the rack. So it was in my dads garage on his Fios internet, but from a networking perspective it thought that it was in a Linode datacenter.

The ER4 has 3 ports: 1 was for the uplink, one exposed the WAN connection to the rack, and then the 3rd port became a client inside of the network. I could shell into it from home (he's on the other side of the country) and operate from the residential network and also the server network simultaneously. Worked well enough for a few weeks to keep access around until we could engineer a better solution.

Configuring OpenBSD was really quite simple and rewarding. No insane linux network stack / netplan / cloud-init / bs ... just a few conf files.

obligatory pic: https://i.imgur.com/Mkf9ckc.jpeg

Re: OpenBSD 7.9

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Post by she46BiOmUerPVj »

clbrmbr wrote: post #10

Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).

Been running it as my home router since 2.3. I had it on a server for a very short time when I used hardware RAID but I replaced that quickly with FreeBSD for ZFS once I could afford to replace that old Dell.

I ran it on my personal laptop for several years when I had one, but having a work laptop for these past decades I don't have much use for a personal laptop. I would probably run it again on a nice portable when I retire. It would be nice to focus on being creative on such a machine. Coding and drawing mostly. I will continue to use Linux in my recording studio though.

Re: OpenBSD 7.9

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Post by nelsonic »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #39
nelsonic wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use OpenBSD for our VPSes on Hetzner, bare metal (for security focussed clients) and older (but still good) hardware in our Home Lab. OpenBSD is excellent on older (no longer supported by Cupertino) Apple hardware. We have an Intel Mac Mini Cluster with near-perfect uptime. If you need to run any kind of server (Web, Mail, DNS, NFS, Database) where you need stability & security, look no further. Some learning curv…

What's the situation with Broadcom wifi on your intel macs? We've run into instability issues with the newer Linux kernels (starting with 6.x, I think) and have had to stop upgrading.

Ah, we have all connected via Ethernet. Side-stepped the WiFi issue. ;-) But have read of others successfully navigating it.

Re: OpenBSD 7.9

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Post by ectospheno »

ska80 wrote: post #25

I wish OpenBSD supported Bluetooth. Unfortunately, its absence is a deal breaker for me. I did use OpenBSD on the desktop it was great.

The sole set of wired headphones in my house is for my OpenBSD laptop.

Re: OpenBSD 7.9

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Post by fsflover »

nelsonic wrote: post #11

With all the security issues constantly being uncovered in other Operating Systems - which will only accelerate with Ai - it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD. Their decades-long security-focus is second to none. We have fully converted from Ubuntu/Debian to OpenBSD. No looking back.

If you care about security, why not consider Qubes OS? Related discussion: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qubesos-vs-openbsd-security/790...
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