OpenBSD Webzine Issue #2

https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-2.html

by hucste • 5 years ago

128 31 5 years ago

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messo• 5 years ago

I have little experience with OpenBSD, but this webzine reveals a playful community that have piqued my interest. A great way to mark important releases :)

binkHN• 5 years ago

Then you might be pleased to know that OpenBSD also releases artwork and a song for every release!

hyproxia• 5 years ago

Not always.

foxfluff6• 5 years ago

Playful indeed. https://playonbsd.com/

There's a nice small community of OpenBSD gamers. :)

enriquto3• 5 years ago

To play the first notes of Bach's prelude in C minor (BWV 934) (transposed to A minor to ease the writing), you need two OpenBSD boxes with beepers, and pipe the two following strings on /dev/speaker on both computers at the exact same time. (...)

Hahahah, who writes this thing? It is lovely!

raspbeguy5• 5 years ago

I wrote this, glad you like it!

HeckFeck2• 5 years ago

Little trinkets like these give me hope that computing isn't lost to the hands of dullards and bugmen!

mlang232• 5 years ago

This brings back fond memories. When I came back from CCC Camp 2003, OpenBSD got me interested. So I gave it a try, and had a real fun time in the ensuing 12 months. The simplicity, pretty good docs and the installer ("Do you want to edit /etc/hosts with ed now?") got me really hooked. I eventually didnt make it away from Linux for several reasons, but I still miss playing with OpenBSD. It felt so right and unbloated, something I cant say about Linux anymore these days.

foxfluff6• 5 years ago

Does Alpine Linux feel bloated too?

mlang232• 5 years ago

No idea, never tried. I went from SuSE straight to Debian, and haven't bothered to check any other distros out since.

enriquto3• 5 years ago

It's much better than monstrosities like debian and the like, but still more bloated than OpenBSD.

I have raw installs of OpenBSD 6.9 and Alpine on virtual machines. Running "ps ax" fills half of my terminal screen on OpenBSD, and requires several screens on Alpine.

zibzab• 5 years ago

I think Arch is very close to the OpenBSD philosophy.

Not necessarily for security reasons, but more as a byproduct of keeping things simple so we can manage them manually.

raspbeguy5• 5 years ago

I do not fully agree on this statement. Arch uses systemd which cannot be caled "keeping things simple" in my opinion. I think Voidlinux is a bit closer to what you description.

ainar-g• 5 years ago

This might sound like a bit of a weird question, considering that there is an ATOM feed, but is there a way to receive these by E-Mail? The format seems almost perfect for a regular-ish subscription list.

raspbeguy5• 5 years ago

This is called a newsletter, and managing a newsletter asks more time and legal measures. So I cannot speak for solene, but that's not likely to happen.

icy2• 5 years ago

You could possibly make use of https://rssby.email for this.

icy2• 5 years ago

I love it. OpenBSD is my end-game in terms of operating systems -- it's the only thing that fully fits in my head. And the lovely, not-so-serious community around it just makes it so much better.

Thank you for doing this.

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