2018-10-08 08:15:29 +00:00
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title: "Monthly Donation: OpenBSD"
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2018-10-08 08:35:28 +00:00
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date: 2018-10-08T11:31:06+03:00
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slug: "monthly-donation-openbsd"
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image: /content/images/2018/10/OpenBSD-background.png
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In keeping with my blogging traditions, I was over a week late with this post. Not that anybody would be surprised.
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2018-10-08 08:35:28 +00:00
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Last month I [donated 25 bucks to the MATE Desktop Environment](/posts/monthly-donation-mate-desktop/), my favorite desktop
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environment. If I need a full desktop environment and not just a window manager, MATE is where I look.
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2018-10-08 08:35:28 +00:00
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This month I'll be donating to a project that I've actually barely used directly. Although I want to. But a lot of the software
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born from the project is absolutely amazing. People versed in the world of Unix-like OSes (or those who read the blog post's
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title) already figured out that I'm talking about [OpenBSD](https://www.openbsd.org/).
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While OpenBSD is in fact a whole BSD operating system, I personally have never ran it daily. I want to, even my personal laptop.
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There's simply too much stuff that wouldn't work, which I like to have access to. Such as Steam's recently announced proton,
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which makes Linux gaming a heaven. But I have yet to hear of anyone getting that to work on a BSD.
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OpenBSD is a bit different however. Even though it is a full OS, it is perhaps more well known for it's other contributions to
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the world of Unix-like OSes. Most notably OpenSSH. A piece of software that almost anyone has running on their Linux servers.
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Even if not on your server, there's probably a client on your machine installed, perhaps being used for tasks such as cloning git
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repos.
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In my case, I run a mail server powered by OpenSMTPD as well, another amazing piece of software, it saved me from the demonic
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ritual called postfix configuration. Void Linux, my Linux distro of choice is also powered by LibreSSL, another OpenBSD project.
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(Confusingly, OpenSSL is the original, and LibreSSL is the OpenBSD fork. I guess that's just what happens when your preferred
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name is taken)
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2018-10-08 08:15:29 +00:00
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2018-10-08 08:35:28 +00:00
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I don't run the OpenBSD operating sytem directly. But there's probably no other project that has provided such a flood of
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contributions to my systems indirectly. To encourage this, **I threw 50 Euros to the OpenBSD project.** Hopefully all the OpenBSD
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projects will keep flourishing, and if Linux one day diverges too far from my needs (Not impossible, considering the recent Code
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of Conduct mess) then I might just end up running OpenBSD itself on my laptop.
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