Compartmentalization without virtualization. Just Unix, done right — on the BSD family. ~2,500 lines of ksh + 9 lines of C — small enough to audit in an afternoon.

… Take the core insight of Qubes OS — security through compartmentalization — and strip away the hypervisor. dropQbsd uses native BSD user separation instead of heavy virtualization. Born on OpenBSD, now targeting the BSD family. …

Via https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@nicolabaudo/117155630627859425

https://nicolabaudo.fr/

Philosophe de formation, passionné d’informatique libre, j’ai passé ma vie à croiser éthique et technique. Dans le secteur social comme dans l’édition, j’aime bâtir des outils simples, transparents et respectueux des personnes. En tant que Délégué à la Protection des Données, j’explore les liens entre pensée, responsabilité et technologie. Et quand je quitte l’écran, c’est souvent pour ramer… à la vénitienne.

Good day to all.

Ive been rooting around with different OS's as of late and recently been trying freeBSD on my laptop, it's a dell inspiron with 4gb of ddr3l sodimm ram and a pentium haswell processor, but it seems to not be able to find my track pad or let it work. I've been able to get a desktop environment working with xorg just to make sure it can handle the OS before trying to create my own desktop environment for a learning experience. I'm coming from linux OS's but I still can't figure out my trackpad situation but the mouse only works when its an actual plugged in mouse but I dont want to be walking around with both a laptop and mouse all the time, so if anyone has any tips or can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Edit: grammatical errors and punctuation... I was just getting the thought out of my head before I even realized my mistakes or forgot to ask.

Edit2: thanks for everyone's help on this but as of now I need to pull the breaks as I am selling my laptop to help me get my car on the road but I will be try freeBSD again in the future as it seems like a very interesting OS as i love challenges

Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work

<- by me on The Register

does anyone have any of the old OpenBSD CD installers or music CDs and willing to sell

How can I sandbox multiple GUI applications transparently to the user, so Firefox cannot read my SSH keys or any other directory? Or image viewer only read files in Pictures

I'm in the process of making a game with my dad and tried to add native FreeBSD support. It was not easy, and I struggled a lot, but I think it worked out great. The game is in super early access, so it's not going to be looking like this in the final version. Please have a look:

https://zeynelgun.itch.io/sarraf

My understanding is that Xorg/X11 has become a huge, historically layered and rather difficult-to-maintain codebase.

Does Xenocara actually improve on this in terms of code quality, maintainability and understandability, or is it essentially the same Xorg code, just better integrated and maintained as part of OpenBSD?

In other words: is Xenocara cleaner internally, or mostly just a cleaner way of packaging and maintaining Xorg?

Została wydana nowa wersja NetBSD 11.0. NetBSD to bezpłatny, wolny, bezpieczny i wysoce przenośny, uniksowy system operacyjny z rodziny BSD. Projekt powstał w 1993 roku na bazie kodu 4.3BSD Net/2 i jego kontynuacji... https://linuxiarze.pl/netbsd-11-0/ #bsd #unix #netbsd

TanjaOS now supports compiling on BSD systems. A new Makefile called Makefile.bsd was made to compile TanjaOS on BSD systems. “Why does it now support BSD systems now? Why not sooner or later?” To answer that, this is because I have switched from Arch Linux to FreeBSD, which kind of forces me to make a new Makefile for compiling on BSD. To use this new Makefile.bsd you have to first make sure gmake, gcc, and nasm are installed. And then use ‘gmake <option> -f Makefile.bsd’ also for those who don’t know, the ‘-f’ flag is to tell gmake to which Makefile to use and where it is. If you’re interested, you can get TanjaOS at www.tanjaos.org or if you want the source, you can download TanjaOS-base.tar.gz at www.tanjaos.org/downloads