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Favorite OpenBSD Utilities & Libraries? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

The installer. And sysupgrade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love diskutil

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Readers of this thread might find https://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.