OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250(XY)
06.03.2026 22:01
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OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250(XY)
nice!
China, 2012.
Street photography is about presence quiet observation, no interruption.
f/8 and be there.
#streetphotography #bw #china
smiling woman dressed in black coat(?) leaning on metal stair railing with folded hands, apartments, stairway, city street just after a rainfall, bright sun
Portrait of
Toni Morrison
Jill Krementz
photographer
February 13
1974, NYC
Spectrum pinball (Bally, 1982)
#pinball
Someone posted an old Slackware 2005 setup (KDE 3.3.2, kernel 2.4) and it instantly brought back memories.
Before systemd. Before Wayland.
Just KDE 3, Konsole, and Slackware doing exactly what you told it to do.
20 years later and the philosophy hasn’t changed.
www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/s...
nice!
Game of Trees 0.122 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260211061627 #openbsd #got #git #gameoftrees #versioncontrol #development #freesoftware #libresoftware
Big update pushed for #BSSG - my Bash-based static site generator
This is a major pre-release update, not the official release yet, and I would really love some testing and feedback before cutting it.
Highlights:
New build mode: BUILD_MODE="ram" / --build-mode ram
This is a memory-first build […]
Just switched to mtm (Micro Terminal Multiplexer) a suckless-style terminal multiplexer that does ONE thing: split panes. No sessions, no bloat, just ~1000 lines of clean C code.
slackbuilds.org/repository/1...
#slackware
Soft morning light filters through low mist over a frosted field at sunrise. Bare trees and distant power lines fade into the haze, while a small shed and fence sit quietly in the foreground, framed by dark leaves on the right. The scene feels still, cold, and gently waking.
Today has been a long day, one that started very early in a soft, cool mist.
At last I can relax a bit, enjoy dinner, and try to catch a little bit of that weekend feeling.
Have a great weekend, #BSDCafe
Have a great weekend, #illumosCafe
Have a great weekend, #Fediverse
“If I want vim I’ll type vim. When I type vi I want vi.”
— Bob Beck, 2006
over at $DAYJOB there was a brief scare about the recent notepad++ bug, with lots of whining about corp IT removing the package from laptops.
This of course had me hint at saner alternatives such as vi or emacs and derivatives, but no mention of vi is ever complete without this message from Bob […]
I’ve just received a wonderful email. I’m so excited!
More about this in the coming days.
#RunBSD #NetBSD
Using dmenu as my main UI, not just dmenu_run.
Super+Space opens a small menu for apps + system actions.
snac.bsd.cafe/r1w1s1/p/176...
#dwm #suckless #dmenu #x11 #linux
Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/
#ITNotes #FreeBSD #Apple #Backup #Data #OwnYourData #Server #TimeMachine #Tutorial #zfs #BastilleBSD #Bastille
I haven’t tested XLibre at all yet, so I can’t comment on Electron
For anyone curious, there’s already a SlackBuild floating around:
github.com/ONykyf/X11Li...
Probably better as a “wait and see” thing. It still needs time, adoption, and clear technical wins before it makes sense to suggest it for -current.
Slackware isn’t about shortcuts.
It’s about understanding the system, from boot to shell.
This video explains well why Slackware still matters.
youtu.be/pRp1I3OzMEY
#slackware
Huge files don’t need better editors.
They need better workflows.
Shell for inspection, ed for known changes,
screen editors only when rewriting is needed.
Details:
snac.bsd.cafe/r1w1s1/p/176...
#unix #cli #vi #ed
Did a pekwm vs evilwm deep-dive on my Slackware system today — full notes here:
snac.bsd.cafe/r1w1s1/p/176...
#Slackware #X11 #Unix #pekwm #evilwm
thank I'm in :)
yes please lets try to use discord again :)
Yep 🙂 it’s even simpler, BSD-style:
bsddialog --theme blackwhite --msgbox "dark mode" 8 30
Blue is just the default 3d theme.
Tried bsddialog on my Slackware ThinkPad.
Built from gitlab.com/alfix/bsddia... and wired into my tty1 menu -- cleaner layout, better spacing, same TTY.
Feels like a real BSD installer, not just “dialog in a box”.
#BSD #Slackware #TUI #Unix
Nice to see Game of Trees Hub: Git hosting on OpenBSD + Game of Trees, funded via Open Collective.
Small, boring, security-first -- the good kind.
gothub.org
Finally got my hands on a ThinkPad X220 😍
Time to start installing Slackware-current and have some fun.
#ThinkPad #X220 #Slackware #Linux
This was around the time of my first #FreeBSD install. I was told it was a real OS by my coworker (at the time we were Admins for Solaris and AIX) a few months previous, this same coworker got me to install Gentoo. I stuck with #Slackware until a couple of years ago when I installed FreeBSD 14.2