Post #2035125
2026-05-05 14:15 UTC
Been playing a lot more with OpenBSD recently, and it feels a lot more "right" than FreeBSD. Simpler, more grokkable. Fewer surprises.
I don't think it's perfect, mind you. But definitely nice.
Pretty sure that I will transition to it in time. Server-side it feels like a no-brainer.
Home machine? Hmm. With a Linux VM, probably.
The only thing I was running into was trying to resize a partition on a full disk encrypted softraid device. Of course the device needs to be resized, too, but I...
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@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de 2026-05-05 14:17
... could not figure that out from the docs. Not important, rebuilding the VM was not hard. Anyway. A bunch more basic system setup to go through, then I'll be ready to try hardware.
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@chrysn@chaos.social 2026-05-05 18:11
@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de The one thing that keeps me from even trying OpenBSD is their refusal to allow IPv4 on IPv6 sockets (V6ONLY=0). But maybe that doesn't matter any more when used in v6only networks where something outside provides NAT64.