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OpenBSD laptop running XFCE and Syncthing now

Posted on zo 03 november 2024 in runbsd

So there were some surprises in getting it to work, but with some digging in manuals and community support, my laptop is now running a desktop environment on top of OpenBSD 7.6.

During setup I ran into issues with errors concerning the number of open files. The annoying thing …


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'Nieuwe' OpenBSD laptop

Posted on vr 01 november 2024 in runbsd

Op de wensenlijst stond nog een apart device om OpenBSD op de desktop te kunnen draaien. Dual booten kan technisch, maar ik heb al te vaak bootloaders in de knel gebracht. Dus liever niet.

Via Marktplaats had ik vrij snel een betaaldbare Lenovo T470 gevonden. De vorige eigenaar had er …


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In Dublin, Ireland for EuroBSDCon

Posted on za 21 september 2024 in runbsd

Yesterday I arrived in Dublin for EuroBSDCon. Experienced some interesting bits I did nog give a single thought about upfront. Like Ireland is in the EU, but not in Schengen: passport control. And renting a car without even considering that it might be one of those left hand drive countries …


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Homelab webproxy using Squid on OpenBSD

Posted on vr 22 december 2023 in runbsd

Right now I'm building my new homelab environment. On top of Proxmox I deployed an OpenBSD virtual machine that will act as an http egress for all homelab vlans. This is just a quick writeup of my recipe.

The virtual machine has two cores assigned and 2 GB of RAM …


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FreeBSD with jails

Posted on vr 15 december 2023 in runbsd

Last week I installed FreeBSD on an old and disregarded laptop I had laying around. I wanted to see if FreeBSD BHyve and/or FreeBSD Jails were concepts that would work well for me or at least would introduce some cool new feature or idea. Installing the laptop went unexpectedly …


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