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@_nibbles@mastodon.social
@_nibbles@mastodon.social @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe There is a difference between upgrading the base system vs. 3rd party packages. Nothing of this has anything to do with "haven't come up with proper package management".
Your 'dnf upgrade' upgrades _everything_ you haven't blacklisted.
The command 'syspatch' on #OpenBSD upgrades the parts of the base system that need to be upgraded (no 3rd party packages) - sometimes thats security patches, sometimes not so subtle bugs.
What you are refering to in i.e. OpenBSDs case is 'pkg_add -u' which will upgrade the non-base (3rd party) packages that the users installed _after_ the base system has been installed.
There is quite a difference in base and package handling between NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
Saying none of the BSDs have come up with proper package management is quite wrong.
Peter N. M. Hansteen
@pitrh@mastodon.social
Occasional rants about IT with an OpenBSD slant at http://bsdly.blogspot.com If you're new to the fediverse or Mastodon, please take a peek at https://fedi.tips/ for tips on fediverse netizenship. I'm usually located in Bergen, Norway (AKA The Other West Coast)
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Peter N. M. Hansteen
@pitrh@mastodon.social
Occasional rants about IT with an OpenBSD slant at http://bsdly.blogspot.com If you're new to the fediverse or Mastodon, please take a peek at https://fedi.tips/ for tips on fediverse netizenship. I'm usually located in Bergen, Norway (AKA The Other West Coast)
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Highly Available DNS via BGP
Talk by Beni Keller
2026-09-12 10:30:00
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About EuroBSDcon 2026: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware
Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺
@tubsta@social.bsdlab.au
Preacher of fine BSD operating systems. Co-host on the BSDNow Podcast. Ultra bike packer and gravel cycling enthusiast!
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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
BSD.cafe and illumos Cafe "Barista", Founder and System Administrator, Unix enthusiast ( #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #Illumos and #Linux ), with a keen eye for everything happening in this world and the fascinating beings that populate it. I enjoy #music, #photography, and, of course, #technology. Most of my posts will self-destruct after 6 months. "I Solve Problems" - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/
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obsd01# syspatch Get/Verify syspatch79-008_npppd.tgz 100% || 128 KB 00:00 Installing patch 008_npppd Get/Verify syspatch79-009_iked.tgz 100% |*| 216 KB 00:00 Installing patch 009_iked Errata can be reviewed under /var/syspatch
Patching OpenBSD is such a joy!
𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑️🤪
@joel@gts.tumfatig.net
IRL: 🐡 🥋 📸 🌱 🍻 🎸 All we are is dust in the wind. 🖖☺️ Opened to discussions. I will check your profile before accepting a follow request. 🔁 Retoot anything at will. 🕵️♂️ I don’t post things that should be kept secret. ♻️ Old messages are automatically deleted. 🗣️ 🇫🇷 🏴 #OpenBSD #RunBSD #UNIX #Slackware #FOSS #GoToSocial #MartialArt #Karate #Kobudo #ShindoMusoRyuJodo #Photography #Plant #Gardening #Music #Guitar
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This is my #GoToSocial (on #OpenBSD, on #bhyve, on #FreeBSD) instance, as seen from the garage. Doesn’t it look cute!?
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
BSD.cafe and illumos Cafe "Barista", Founder and System Administrator, Unix enthusiast ( #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #Illumos and #Linux ), with a keen eye for everything happening in this world and the fascinating beings that populate it. I enjoy #music, #photography, and, of course, #technology. Most of my posts will self-destruct after 6 months. "I Solve Problems" - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/
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Running your own mail server with OpenBSD and OpenSMTPD - a great and complete blog post by @mboelen@mastodon.social
https://bsd-audit.com/self-hosting/running-your-own-mailserver/
#OpenBSD #SMTP #MailServer #OwnYourData
Bradley Taunt 
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@bt@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Designer, developer, hardware tinkerer, open source advocate, consumer of dark roast coffee, and writer of very long sentences. Using OpenBSD & NetBSD whenever I can. Using FreeBSD, Alpine Linux and macOS as needed. Guides: - https://httpd.rocks - https://bozo.httpd.rocks - https://openbased.xyz - https://caddy.ninja Clubs: - https://1mb.club - https://512kb.club - https://1kb.club - https://xhtml.club Site Generators: - https://wruby.site - https://barf.btxx.org - https://shinobi.btxx.org
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Since I already had the https://httpd.rocks domain (focusing on #OpenBSD) I figured it made sense to take advantage of the subdomain:
https://bozo.httpd.rocks
(Still placeholder until the guide is complete 😉 )
#bozohttpd #NetBSD
R.L. Dane 
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social
My blog: https://rldane.space/ My scripts: https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts #Fediversian since late 2018, full-time #fediholic since early 2022. First-wave #twexodee. NOTE: Most of my toots are in markdown (rich text). Your client might mangle the formatting. Public statuses can be best viewed on on this instance's web interface. Your client should give you an option to copy the post's link. Imported profile from fosstodon: Involuntary time-traveler, recipient of offensive grace. Quasi-technical Linux and FOSS enthusiast. Armchair privacy advocate Profile pic is my own, copyright me. Header image courtesy of NASA: https://unsplash.com/photos/Q1p7bh3SHj8 My #interests: #StarWars #StarTrek #Linux #UNIX #Bible #Christianity #Jesus #AmateurRadio #Bash #Dallas #Writing #Poetry #Space #KSP #Tea #FountainPens #Journaling #TabletopRPG #RetroComputing #ClassicMac #uxn #fedi22
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@snufkin_vc@mastodon.social
@snufkin_vc@mastodon.social
Heya!!
At this moment, #OpenBSD is the easiest to get a fully-working system. FreeBSD has decent hardware compatibility, but both wifi and the GUI are a somewhat manual (although fairly trivial) affair, at least until they complete their desktop installer.
#NetBSD also gives you a usable (and actually pretty attractive) X11 system in "base," but the hardware support isn't quite as good, and it lacks #FullDiskEncryption, if that's important to you.
Peter N. M. Hansteen
@pitrh@mastodon.social
Occasional rants about IT with an OpenBSD slant at http://bsdly.blogspot.com If you're new to the fediverse or Mastodon, please take a peek at https://fedi.tips/ for tips on fediverse netizenship. I'm usually located in Bergen, Norway (AKA The Other West Coast)
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Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260804054218 #openbsd #vmm #vmd #virtualization #virtualmachines #testing #newcode #development #security #freesoftware #libresoftware
KC3 v0.1.17 released https://lobste.rs/s/yy8u9m #c #elixir #openbsd
https://www.kmx.io/blog/kc3-v0.1.17-released
Abdelkader Boudih
@seuros@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Old man yelling at the cloud providers
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Things the OS authors don't want you to know:
- The #FreeBSD logo is Beastie, because it reminds you to dare, hack, and stop praying.
- The #Linux logo is Tux, because even penguins know what it is like to freeze with amdgpu.
- The #Windows logo is a window, because that is where you throw the PC goes after the third BSOD.
- The #OpenBSD logo is Puffy, because it’s the only fish that takes security more seriously than being edible.
- The #NetBSD logo is a flag, because if it boots on your hardware, they claim it as territory.
- The #DragonFlyBSD logo is a dragonfly, because every time you explain HAMMER2, people suddenly find somewhere else to be.
- The #macOS logo is an Apple, because one bite costs 999$, no 1999$, no 4999$. They soldered the RAM to keep the worms out.
- The #ChromeOS logo is #chrome because the operating system is just the browser admitting it won.
Kromonos 🇩🇪 
@kromonos@social.mooneyed.de
Senior Software Developer | SRE & DevOps Enthusiast | Infrastructure as Code (IaC) | IT-Security Specialist
social.mooneyed.de
Na dann versuche ich mich mal an #FreeBSD ... Ein Bereich, den ich gelegentlich schon mal mit #NetBSD, #DragonFlyBSD und #OpenBSD angegangen war, aber nie wirklich die Geduld hatte, es länger zu verfolgen.
Peter N. M. Hansteen
@pitrh@mastodon.social
Occasional rants about IT with an OpenBSD slant at http://bsdly.blogspot.com If you're new to the fediverse or Mastodon, please take a peek at https://fedi.tips/ for tips on fediverse netizenship. I'm usually located in Bergen, Norway (AKA The Other West Coast)
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Returning readers will remember my "Eighteen years of greytrapping" piece (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html and may also remember that it has numbers and graphs.
It's now been more like 19 years of the activity, and the numbers and graphs are refreshed as of end of July.
#spam #antispam #spamd #openbsd #greylisting #greytrapping #security #cybercrime #cybersecurity #smtp #email
Michael Boelen
@mboelen@mastodon.nl
Blogger, klusser, verduurzamer, automatiseerder. Werkt graag met open oplossingen, zoals Linux. Onderwerpen die langs zullen komen zijn o.a. #verduurzamen, #luchtkwaliteit, #schonelucht en #binnenklimaat, #balansventilatie, #ventilatie, #energiebesparing, #klussen en woningonderhoud, #automatisering, #Linux, #opensource, #privacy, #gereedschap, #veiligheid, #zonnepanelen. Engelse toots over o.a. Linux en security zijn te vinden op mijn andere account: @mboelen
mastodon.nl
Voor de techneuten onder ons, die op @doeidag@mastodon.nl overwegen om e-mail (weer) in eigen beheer te nemen, heb ik een artikel afgelopen maand online gezet met behulp van #OpenBSD, #OpenSMTPD en #Rspamd.
Door het gebruik van unieke emailadressen per webshop/vereniging/nieuwsbrief, is het eenvoudig om bij een #datalek het adres uit te schakelen. Ook ontkoppel je met deze unieke adressen vele diensten aan jou. Laten we het bedrijven moeilijk maken om jou te profileren 💪
https://opensource.vooreenbeginner.nl/self-hosting/eigen-mailserver-met-openbsd/
#DoeiDag
OpenBSD Amsterdam
@OpenBSDAms@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Hosting opinionated OpenBSD VMs on vmm(4)/vmd(8) out of Amsterdam NL. Silver Sponsor of The OpenBSD Foundation. PARTNER SPONSOR OF EuroBSDCon 2019-2026. BSDCan Sponsor 2024-2026. NLNOG Sponsor 2020-2026. HackerHotel Sponsor 2019-2025. BSD-NL Sponsor 2023-2026
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𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑️🤪
@joel@gts.tumfatig.net
IRL: 🐡 🥋 📸 🌱 🍻 🎸 All we are is dust in the wind. 🖖☺️ Opened to discussions. I will check your profile before accepting a follow request. 🔁 Retoot anything at will. 🕵️♂️ I don’t post things that should be kept secret. ♻️ Old messages are automatically deleted. 🗣️ 🇫🇷 🏴 #OpenBSD #RunBSD #UNIX #Slackware #FOSS #GoToSocial #MartialArt #Karate #Kobudo #ShindoMusoRyuJodo #Photography #Plant #Gardening #Music #Guitar
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Them: why did you choose #OpenBSD so long ago?Me: seriously? https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html#13