556: Cozy OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System, Lichee Console 4A - RISC-V mini laptop, Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability, Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate, Not Not Porting 9front to Power64, One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System (https://btxx.org/posts/OpenBSD_is_a_Cozy_Operating_System/)
Lichee Console 4A - RISC-V mini laptop (https://3.14.by/en/read/RISC-V-Sipeed-Lichee-Console-4A-Alibaba-T-Head-TH1520-review)
News Roundup
Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-03-30-lessons-learned-xz-vuln.html)
Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate (https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/technologist-vs-spy-the-xz-backdoor)
Not Not Porting 9front to Power64 (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/04/03/0/)
One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC (http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2024/02/one-less-unxy-option-for-32-bit-powerpc.html)
Beastie Bits
20 years since... (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240409044953)
Jails PDFs (https://cdn.gyptazy.ch/files/docs/freebsd/jails/)
NixOS BSD (https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd)
rigg - run indie games on OpenBSD (https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd_gaming/comments/1bb9wle/rigg_10_released_a_new_way_to_run_indie_games_on/)
pkgsrc 2024Q1 (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2024/04/04/msg000370.html)
PackMule (https://badland.io/packmule.md)
AcephalOS - A new FreeBSD image build tool (https://codeberg.org/San_Bernadino_Operation/AcephalOS_image_build_system)
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