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#RunBSD on a twelve year old Macbook Pro

Posted on za 25 oktober 2025 in runbsd

To run things in parallel for my RunBSD project, I needed some extra devices. Going onto Marktplaats/Ebay is easy enough, but I want to avoid adding more devices to my stock.

MBP Cheetah running OpenBSD 7.8

To have somewhat of a 'server system' at home in the RunBSD VLAN, I considered using a leftover …


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Planning to RunBSD

Posted on di 21 oktober 2025 in runbsd

After my interest in OpenBSD was renewed a couple of years ago, the idea was to replace existing things with OpenBSD things here and there. So in my homelab both the ingress and egress web proxies #RUNBSD. And there is ofcourse virtual server Petpuffy, serving a couple of websites using …


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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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