Interestingly, #FreeBSD comes with #nvi2 in base, while #OpenBSD and #NetBSD seem to be running #nvi 1:

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
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Version 2.2.2 (2025-10-08) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

OpenBSD 7.3
(7.9 is still running the same version)
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Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

NetBSD 10.1
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Version (1.81.6-2013-11-20nb4) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

They all seem to have nvi2 available as packages, though, which #Debian, oddly, does not.

rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search nvi |grep '^nvi2'
nvi2-2.2.2                     Updated implementation of the ex/vi text editor
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

#(searching openbsd online)
rld@Intrepid:~$ searchall -o nvi |grep ^nvi
nvi-2.2.2                (list)   with wide         and files limited by
nvi-2.2.2-iconv          (list)   with wide         and files limited by

rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ uname -sr
NetBSD 10.1
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ pkgin search nvi |grep ^nvi |grep -v nvidia
nvi-1.81.6nb13       Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n-1.79.20040608nb11  Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2-2.2.0           Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ 

~ $ head -1 /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
~ $ apt-cache search nvi |grep -E '^nvi2? '
nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
~ $ 

LONG HAUL \\ HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, OPENBSD!

#unix_surrealism #comic #openbsd #technomage #runbsd

Alt...

Fish and Girl are looting the Museum of Open Technology. Fish spots an old poster dated 1996.

• [x] upgrade all servers to #openbsd 7.9 ❤️

yay!

https://www.openbsd.org/79.html

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pink puffy

https://www.openbsd.org/plus79.html
https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/

New #blog #post: Package Manager Tier List

https://rldane.space/package-manager-tier-list.html

1521 words

Note: this is a very off-the-cuff tier list, using speed as the main qualifier, but the article explains exceptions to that as it goes on.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #DeadLikeMe #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Debian #Arch #pacman #AUR #Fedora #homebrew #flatpak #snap #OpenSuSE #RPM

@hi still waiting for #openbsd vi to get UTF-8 and color syntax so I can get rid of vim… :(

aarch64: 12883
amd64: 13044
i386: 10631
mips64: 9309
powerpc64: 9507
sparc64: 10079

arm, powerpc, riscv64: work in progress

openbsd-79-base.pub:	RWTSdNN9A3yvWNn7mUjXwv9DOCOUnyfuV+mq1iGPIfD+NhN8EYnEQ1at
openbsd-79-fw.pub:	RWQdmBb/OCe1hXE08xCj5VLnBpGpphy7kYPdU3oWyfnrwswjtl8K385E
openbsd-79-pkg.pub:	RWSw1kDLJJy6OYgnayEMReLV57z2rzx5jYNCghO+2ARwqd6KuwGFWSn7
openbsd-79-syspatch.pub:	RWTJmz/ur68S9e26/JVRr7T88lAPZIF3YgZ3w2lDnf/frAxTerC/DrZ6

I can't speak to the accuracy or "correctness" of the guy's instructions, but the way he opens the video is freaking hilarious.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=uTrOIPIx7pY

How to Install OpenBSD (2027 Edition)

#OpenBSD #Linux #Install #MemeVideo

/me: was you day productive?
/also_me: define productive!

#OpenBSD #WindowMaker #DockApps #sndiod

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Three dockapps

Aside from the Nvidia, it's pretty similar to my now-dead 2017 HP Envy, and I moved the 480 GB SATA SSD and 16 GB RAM from the dead laptop to the working one.

Maybe it was the live environment, but I had trouble getting #LibreOffice installed with the graphical package manager. It went most of the way, but I had to use pkg from the terminal to finish the installation of the office suite. But after that, LO was able to create and open a password-protected document, unlike in my previous tests. I'm glad that the LO package was fixed for all #FreeBSD users. It took longer than would be ideal, but at least it happened.

Nothing has changed in terms of being able to control brightness and volume with the laptop keys meant for that purpose. They still don't work. I had to set brightness in the terminal. Volume does work with the slider in the panel. And audio was very good, unlike on my 2011 iMac 27-inch, where I only got the treble speakers and not the bass ones.

I can't remember how brightness worked on the iMac. I might have to boot into that one again to check that out. Booting to a USB drive on the iMac is annoying: You need to use a wired keyboard. It won't work with that machine's regular keyboard, a Logitech wireless. I couldn't find my generic USB keyboard, so I had to pull an old Mac keyboard out of the box I hope to ship it in when I sell it. It has one of those ADB to USB adapters from the '90s (??), and it surprisingly still works. I suspect the adapter is worth more than the keyboard.

Back to the HP Pavilion and GhostBSD, just like with the iMac, wireless networking was excellent. The graphical interface worked for both.

I would consider GhostBSD, but at this point I'm more interested in FreeBSD with Plasma. I wish there was a live image that I could try before doing an install. I ran #OpenBSD on the original HP laptop for a long time, and the brightness and volume keys worked OOTB, so it's possible for FreeBSD to do it. But for the shaky machines I have, I really want #ZFS in order to cope with crashes and power loss. My whole intent with FreeBSD is to explore ZFS.

The ports tree is locked for the 7.9 release.
No more commits.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

Now that the #arm64 boards are installed, it was time to use them as redundant #DHCP server and #DNS resolvers; using #dhcpd and #Unbound on both #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/redundant-dhcp-server-and-dns-resolver-using-openbsd-and-freebsd/

So I'm getting somewhere as I can launch them both if I start them like below.

doas seatd -u $(whoami) -l debug & mango

I know this is wrong but it seems like seatd isn't running as my user if I try and start mango or sway without that line hence the permission errors for the keyboard.
I have even followed the OpenBSD seatd man page and added my user justine to the _seatd group and then started seatd with doas rcctl start seatd but still the same no keyboard. If I look in /etc/group I see _seatd:*:564:justine so what am I doing wrong ?

OK #OpenBSD friends, Why when I install Sway or Mango ( #Wayland ) can I not get any keyboard control ? I can run them fine on #FreeBSD but on OpenBSD they both start but the keyboard does nothing on the mouse seems to work on waybar. I'm using known working configs for both.
I do see errors like permission denied for /dev/wskb* . I'm at a loss as I'm sure I had sway running last year ??
Even copied the startsway.sh and modified for mango but still no keyboard ???

Please boost for a larger reach. ❤️

@vlkrs@bsd.network Are you able to assist at all ? TIA

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=177600543425824&w=2

#grapheneos #openbsd #solarpunk #lifting #running

Once, someone asked what was the weirdest platform you run GtS on. Well...

This message was sent from #GoToSocial running on an #OpenBSD #arm64 board (#ODROID HC4).