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The Psychotic Network Ferret<p>I think I need more reasons to use <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a>. I used to be a heavy user, even used to run it on my laptop, but currently manage zero installations.</p><p>I also think I should give <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> a fair shake, I've only ever installed it twice, and never really given it a chance.</p><p>Using OpenBSD is easy, I'll probably convert my wireguard router over to it.</p><p>But any suggestions on NetBSD use cases? I mean this from the context of a heavy <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> user with a massive emphasis on jails.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a></p>
vermaden<p>Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟮 (Valuable News - 2025/06/02) available.</p><p> <a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/valuable-news-2025-06-02/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06</span><span class="invisible">/02/valuable-news-2025-06-02/</span></a></p><p>Past releases: <a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vermaden.wordpress.com/news/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/verblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verblog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/vernews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vernews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zfs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/opnsense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opnsense</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ghostbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ghostbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solaris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/vermadenday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vermadenday</span></a></p>
Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian:<p><a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/OverUnder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OverUnder</span></a> 021 with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ottawa.place/@srgower" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>srgower</span></a></span> !</p><p> His opinions on:</p><p>- <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/Moleskine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moleskine</span></a> notebooks<br>- <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a><br>- <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X</span></a>-Men<br>- <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a><br>- <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/Poutine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poutine</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/notebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notebook</span></a> <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/ink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ink</span></a> <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/rap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rap</span></a> <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/fountainPen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fountainPen</span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://lazybear.social/tags/100DaysToOffload" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysToOffload</span></a> : 062/100</p><p><a href="https://lazybea.rs/ovr-021" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lazybea.rs/ovr-021</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/@sirber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sirber</span></a></span></p><p>Uh, yeah, but <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> has modern software.</p><p>Pick a package and search for it here. See if they don't have it, and a fairly recent version: <a href="https://openports.pl/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://openports.pl/</a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/@sirber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sirber</span></a></span></p><p>For example, this is <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> being totally usable on a 1998 G3:</p><p><a href="https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=rT71HwfiM_A" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=rT71HwfiM_A</a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/@sirber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sirber</span></a></span></p><p>Next time try <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> or <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Haiku</span></a>. It'll be so lightweight, you'll soil yourself in four dimensions!</p>
izzy<p>could someone test the makefile and manpage installing/building for my exfetch project? I only tested on <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a>, so any other <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> testing or even <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> would be appreciated.</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/Izder456/exfetch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">codeberg.org/Izder456/exfetch</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Peter N. M. Hansteen<p>Come September, there will be a gathering of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> developers and users in Zagreb, Croatia -- <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eurobsdcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eurobsdcon</span></a> 2025. </p><p>See <a href="https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">2025.eurobsdcon.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for details, and you can submit your talk or tutorial at <a href="https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/cfp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/cfp</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> until 2025-06-21.</p><p>See you in Zagreb!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conference</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libresoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libresoftware</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsd.network/@EuroBSDCon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EuroBSDCon</span></a></span></p>
Jez Caudle :verified:<p>Finally managed to create a bootable ISO image for Ubuntu that works perfectly with the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> vm console.</p><p><a href="https://hiddenagenda.ltd.uk/blog/ubuntu_24_04_on_openbsd_vmm/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hiddenagenda.ltd.uk/blog/ubunt</span><span class="invisible">u_24_04_on_openbsd_vmm/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p>The <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> hurdle that <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> fell at was its installer.</p><p>Despite it presenting two different partition table editors, I couldn't persuade it to just simply use the already existing single UFS volume that was already there. It just does not seem to cater for the idea that one might want to install to the same removable DASD that one is using, with boot, system, and swap as already defined. It either led me down a path where it zapped the existing partition table, and all of the install files, or demanded that there be another solid-state medium to install to.</p><p>Which is sad, because a Pi with just a TF card and a single purpose is still a significant use case.</p><p>Whereas in NetBSD's sysinst, choosing to install to the same system is the first option on its third menu, after picking the installer language and choosing to install.</p><p>This is a 2 horse race being comfortably won by <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a>, currently. I've not tried <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> yet.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PartitionTables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartitionTables</span></a></p>
Peter N. M. Hansteen<p>j2k25 - OpenBSD Hackathon Japan 2025 (rsadowski@) <a href="https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250601104254" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">undeadly.org/cgi?action=articl</span><span class="invisible">e;sid=20250601104254</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hackathon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hackathon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/j2k25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>j2k25</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kde</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kdeapps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kdeapps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yubikey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yubikey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libresoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libresoftware</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p>The firmware on a <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> 4 does not mind if one changes the partition types of the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> FAT volumes to EFI system, matching <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> in spirit if not in modern partitioning scheme.</p><p>OpenBSD again almost fell at the hurdle here. It is extraordinarily sensitive to the status of its UFS1 partition. Touch it, or attempt to use a fresh one made from scratch, and its booloader thinks that it is talking to an esp device instead of to an sd device, and fails. This is a very strange dependency.</p><p>NetBSD, in contrast, did not bat an eyelid when I splatted about 5GiB of home directory, dotfiles, and tooling onto its UFS1 volume, using pax on another machine which had the TF card in a card reader.</p><p>NetBSD also auto-fixes the backup copy of the EFI partition table after its device re-sizing step. It didn't bat an eyelid, again, when I adjusted the initial card myself ahead of time using FreeBSD's <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/gpart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gpart</span></a> recover.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/UEFI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UEFI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PartitionTables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartitionTables</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/pax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pax</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p>This is good, because installing and using <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TianoCore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TianoCore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/UEFI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UEFI</span></a> firmware in place of u-boot seems to be the only way to get the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> boot loader to recognize the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a>'s on-board display and a USB keyboard.</p><p>It is otherwise insistent on using the UART, which makes it impossible to press that "any" key to get the boot loader to stop so that one can type the magic incantation to get the kernel proper — in its turn — to use the display and keyboard. It too defaults to using the UART.</p><p>This is a Pi 4 in a PiHut "modular" case, still resembling that <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Blakes7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blakes7</span></a> prop. It's not designed for DB9 sockets, but it has HDMI and USB holes, plus optional plastic shields for covering them to just let power and Ethernet in when the Pi is in production.</p><p>Maintenance with just a keyboard and monitor is the goal. OpenBSD barely cleared this first hurdle of controlling its boot loader.</p><p>(It fell at a subsequent hurdle, which is why I'm now trying <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DASD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DASD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PartitionTables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartitionTables</span></a></p>
OpenBSD Amsterdam<p>⚠️ sysupgrade complete announcement ⚠️ </p><p>All hosts, other peoples hardware, have been upgraded to OpenBSD 7.7, including the latest syspatch.</p><p><a href="https://www.openbsd.org/77.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">openbsd.org/77.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>If you haven't upgraded your VM yet, have a look at:<br><a href="https://openbsd.amsterdam/upgrade.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">openbsd.amsterdam/upgrade.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And of course the official documentation.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RUNBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RUNBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Maintenance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maintenance</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>'s FAT16 partition is 50MiB, and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a>'s FAT32 partition is 80MiB. These comfortably take additional files.</p><p>FAT32 is technically superior, with the variable-length root directory, but for DASD volumes whose whole purpose is to contain a couple of tens of boot loader files it's not much of a practical advantage here. And indeed on the downside, the FATs are an order of magnitude bigger.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a>'s FAT16 partition in contrast is a tiny 8MiB. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TianoCore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TianoCore</span></a> UEFI firmware, approximately 4MiB, does not fit on it without deleting stuff.</p><p>Ironically, it is preceded by twice that amount, 16MiB, in free space not allocated to any partition. It's possible to delete the 8MiB Microsoft partition and re-create a 23MiB one, as long as one saves and restores the contents.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/UEFI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UEFI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DASD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DASD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PartitionTables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartitionTables</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p>It's interesting to see who the early adopters in the BSD world are when it comes to various things. Such as the partitioning on their <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> installer images.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> has an old "MBR" partition table. No container partitions, just a UFS1 volume in an OpenBSD primary partition and a FAT16 volume in a >1024cyl Microsoft primary partition.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> has an old "MBR" partition table. It too has a FAT16 volume in a >1024cyl Microsoft partition. It has container partitions, though, with an even older BSD disklabel in a FreeBSD primary partition and a UFS2 volume contained inside that.</p><p>Waving hello from the 21st century, <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> has an EFI partition table. No container partitions, of course. There is a FAT32 volume in an EFI System partition, and a UFS1 volume in a NetBSD partition.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/UEFI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UEFI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DASD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DASD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PartitionTables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartitionTables</span></a></p>
James Seward<p>Oh it finished building in time before I had to go out <a href="https://mastodon.jamesoff.net/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jamesoff.net/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a></p>
James Seward<p>Here’s a meta-fastfetch <a href="https://mastodon.jamesoff.net/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jamesoff.net/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a></p>
Peter N. M. Hansteen<p>In a little more than a week, people like me will be heading to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bsdcan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsdcan</span></a>. </p><p>You can still register for the conference at <a href="https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bsdcan.org/2025/registration.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a>, and browse <a href="https://www.bsdcan.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bsdcan.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for info. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/experience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>experience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conference</span></a></p>
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