Openbsd
With the upcoming release of OpenBSD 4.9 and my previous testings with SOGo, I decided to give it a try as a workstation environment. I used OpenBSD for quite a while ; but this was decades before. If I’m right, this was about 2002. I was using stuff like WindowMaker, Sylpheed-Claws or Mutt (depending on the day mood), Mozilla or Lynx and XMMS. At this time, I was a SysAdmin so this was perfect are far from enough compared to Windows 2000. But nowadays, I’m a father storing loads photos and rendering personal week-end movies. I’m still a bit of a g33k ; after all, who would blog on using such OS…
But let’s see if Open Source software can do the trick.Continue reading...
Today, I feel like testing OpenBSD again. I want to see how it works as a workstation. So I’m gonna run a 4.9 (snapshot) on a Asus EeePC 901.
AFAIK, OpenBSD doesn’t provide official bootable USB stuff. I tried burning the various iso files on the USB stick but it wouldn’t boot… surprise! Then I tried using unetbootin which, of course, doesn’t support OpenBSD… Success came using a virtualisation software to install a minimal OpenBSD system on the USB stick and (re)run the install from there.Continue reading...
Here’s the configuration I use to run OpenBSD 4.9-beta on my NetBSD/xen server (NetBSD 5 with Xen 3.3.1). Since OpenBSD doesn’t provide a Xen-aware kernel, I run it using HVM.Continue reading...
Quoting SOGo: Open Source Groupware homepage: SOGo is groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards. SOGo provides a rich AJAX-based Web interface and supports multiple native clients.
It is a set of access tools to your Mail, Calendar and Address book. It provides Webmail, a CalDAV and a CardDAV services. It also enables integration with native clients, like Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail.
The difference with M$ Exchange is that it is Open Source software. The difference with Zafara or Zimbra is that it doesn’t come with its own backend ; it sits on top of some already running SMTP and IMAP servers.Continue reading...
I have a LDAP instance running the OpenBSD’s ldapd. I installed the openldap-client package so that I get ldapsearch, but there doesn’t seem to be any slapcat-like tool ; which may be used to backup the LDAP content in LDIF format.
Here’s a trick to dump the ldapd content using ldapsearch:Continue reading...