Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenBSD

OpenBSD IO Benchmarking: How Many Jobs Are Worth It? (rsadowski.de)
This post explores these questions through detailed fio(1) benchmarking, looking at random reads, random writes, and latency — all running on a recent build of OpenBSD 7.7-current.

Operating Systems, Benchmarking, Performance, OpenBSD

3 points by adamrt 9 days ago | 0 comments

FuguIta: OpenBSD Live CD – Celebrates Their 20th Anniversary (fuguita.org)
FuguIta 7.6, based on OpenBSD 7.6, was released on October 21, 2024.

OpenBSD, Live CD, Operating Systems, Anniversaries

4 points by warmandsoft 22 days ago | 1 comments

Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (ewintr.nl)
Sometimes the water is cold at first.

OpenBSD, Operating Systems, Travel, Amsterdam

78 points by DJHenk 26 days ago | 12 comments

OpenSMTPD and Maildrop working in concert (whenhen.com)
OpenBSD has many ways of filtering mails based on criteria right out of the box. But sometimes, the workload you want to put on your incoming mail is better suited for tools designed just for that.

Email, Security, OpenBSD, Open Source

5 points by _nato_ 31 days ago | 6 comments

A more robust raw OpenBSD syscall demo (nullprogram.com)
Ted Unangst published dude, where are your syscalls? on flak yesterday, with a neat demonstration of OpenBSD’s pinsyscall security feature, whereby only pre-registered addresses are allowed to make system calls.

Security, OpenBSD, Operating Systems, Programming

74 points by signa11 45 days ago | 47 comments

Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux (2022) (justine.lol)
OpenBSD is an operating system that's famous for its focus on security.

Operating Systems, Security, Linux, OpenBSD

5 points by jaypatelani 46 days ago | 0 comments

The OpenBSD Foundation 2025 Fundraising Campaign (openbsdfoundation.org)
The OpenBSD Foundation needs your help to achieve our fundraising goal of $400,000 for 2025.

Open Source, Fundraising, Security, OpenBSD

13 points by greyface- 52 days ago | 0 comments

OpenBSD Innovations (openbsd.org)
This is a list of software and ideas developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project, sorted in order of approximate introduction. Some of them are explained in detail in our research papers.

OpenBSD, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Research

542 points by angristan 62 days ago | 323 comments

You don't link all of Libc (tedunangst.com)
On OpenBSD, there is a rule that you link with libc to interface with the kernel, because that’s where the syscall stubs live.

Operating Systems, Security, OpenBSD

30 points by ingve 73 days ago | 26 comments

Personal Mail Server on OpenBSD (2019) (nicolascarpi.github.io)
It’s time to host your email yourself!

OpenBSD, Email, Servers, Self-Hosting

124 points by likeabatterycar 118 days ago | 78 comments

I Stopped Using OpenBSD (dataswamp.org)
Last month, I decided to leave the OpenBSD team as I have not been using OpenBSD myself for a while. A lot of people asked me why I stopped using OpenBSD, although I have been advocating it for a while. Let me share my thoughts.

Operating Systems, OpenBSD, Personal Experience

54 points by patrakov 154 days ago | 78 comments

I Stopped Using OpenBSD (dataswamp.org)
Last month, I decided to leave the OpenBSD team as I have not been using OpenBSD myself for a while. A lot of people asked me why I stopped using OpenBSD, although I have been advocating it for a while. Let me share my thoughts.

OpenBSD, Operating Systems, Personal Experience

9 points by signa11 156 days ago | 14 comments

OpenBSD Is Hard to Show Off (atthis.link)
Good software is good. That might not be a surprise but it seems increasingly hard to find software that just...works.

OpenBSD, Software, Operating Systems

27 points by todsacerdoti 195 days ago | 42 comments

OpenBSD 7.6 released (openbsd.org)

OpenBSD, Operating Systems, Software Releases

58 points by brynet 200 days ago | 10 comments

OpenBSD 7.6 Released (undeadly.org)
The OpenBSD project has announced OpenBSD 7.6, its 57th release.

Operating Systems, Security, OpenBSD, New Releases

19 points by peter_hansteen 201 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Sanctum VPN daemon for OpenBSD, Linux and macOS (sanctorum.se)

OpenBSD, Linux, macOS, VPN, Security

8 points by archael 206 days ago | 0 comments

OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts (undeadly.org)