rdh@tilde.institute wrote:
Who's still here in the big year 2026?
I am new here. In the web site I read:
"This is a space for people to explore the OpenBSD operating system, in addition to exploring the more social aspects of a multi-user UNIX system"
I use it as in the first sentence, to explore OpenBSD even if I am an OpenBSD user since about 20 years. This is because I use at the moment FreeBSD as Desktop, to do ssh is easier than to boot up a second computer.
The second aspect, the social aspects of a multi-user UNIX system, is sure facinating, /home contains 967 directories, the experiment is worth even if the users get few MB quotas, but I miss the meeting points, perhaps a centraliced forum could help bring first the users together.
Email lists as forum are inefficient. BTW, I am writing this with tilde.institute's nail, it is the mailx feeling of the last century. I used mailx in mailing list discussions with high trafic, but today CLI mail are disappearing, even experienced UNIX users use bloated GUI mail clients for normal mail.
USENET as forum is better. I used nn to read news, but was not able to use the one installed. Perhaps I forgot how to use it, perhaps it changed. What I use to read email and USENET till now is alpine, but unfortunately it is not installed. I think alpine is the last UNIX CLI mail client usable under today's demands. Mutt may be good, but it does not really support imap.
USENET got replaced with WEB forums software and seems to be dying. Perhaps because it is not flexible in creating and ordering discussion forums, because of spam, because it needs a special news reader. This problems could perhaps be solved with a nntp to http gateway and some custom nntp headers, but needs some programming. In any case, USENET is actual, because of increasing censorship and its distribution of the messages among many servers.
I couldn't help but notice that we're a few versions behind on OpenBSD releases, and that the https cert has expired recently.
Although upgrading OpenBSD became a little easier, it is a delicate work that must be done twice a year, stress.
Love and peace,
International law, Geneve and Hague conventions, UN charta, etc are abrogated.
Hruodr.