Favorite OpenBSD Utilities & Libraries?
from ssm@lemmy.sdf.org to openbsd@lemmy.sdf.org on 04 Jun 2024 23:15
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17766370

Utils:

ssh

obvious

debloated emacs
- even smaller than nvi/nex!

tmux

a lot of people don’t realize this is an OpenBSD project
session retention

doas

configuring sudo feels horrible after configuring doas
invaluable in ports

ironic that this is most popular outside of OpenBSD (PFSense)

ifconfig

command line interface translates directly to configuration files

anything on PenguinOS seems insane by comparison
- especially oom killer

sndio

actually works
- hopefully this gets popular outside of OpenBSD ;) ;) ;)

vmm/vmd

still in its early stages, but I love it

got (technically not an OpenBSD project, but adjacent)

debloated git
partial git compatibility

Library Functions/Syscalls:

pledge & unveil

interesting new approach to jails
set and forget, no interaction needed on the user’s end
- with exceptions like chromium & firefox

strtonum

far nicer than strto* functions in stdlib

malloc

now with use after free and leak detection! who needs valgrind?

#openbsd

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gonzalo on 05 Jun 2024 00:00 next collapse

All the above plus, rdist, relayd and chroot/proot

friend_of_satan@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 2024 00:01 next collapse

I love diskutil

ssm@lemmy.sdf.org on 05 Jun 2024 01:14 collapse

apropos any=diskutil and pkg_locate diskutil return nothing relevant for me. diskutil seems to be a MacOS utility? Maybe you meant disklabel?

friend_of_satan@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 2024 03:49 collapse

Oh, sorry, I was thinking of FreeBSD. And honestly it’s been so long since I’ve used it I shouldn’t have even chimed in. I remember using it on FreeBSD 9 when I was first getting into zfs.

In any case, way off topic. Sorry.

Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 2024 00:19 next collapse

The installer. And sysupgrade.

MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 2024 07:03 next collapse

I’ll check out got, thanks. I thought tmux was a freebsd project but I guess not.

Yeah the pf part is a pity, I still think OPNSense should have been built on OPENBSD

mcornick@lemmy.sdf.org on 13 Jun 2024 20:56 collapse

Readers of this thread might find why-openbsd.rocks interesting.

I’ve been using OpenBSD for years now and still find new and helpful stuff in core on occasion. For instance, this week I wanted to convert some old CDs to FLAC, and found cdio can do the CDDA extraction (and faster than cdparanoia, even.)

I use cwm on my OpenBSD workstations. It is fast, stays out of my way, and does not depend on a whole cockamamie “desktop environment.” It’s not for everyone (especially those who feel the need to “theme” things) but I like that it’s available in core.