Traduction de l'article EN → FR 'OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future' décrivant la bascule d'exim vers OpenSMTPD définitive dans OpenBSD, depuis la v7.9 — article de Peter N.M. Hansteen

The SMTP mail server for the 21st century and onwards is OpenSMTPD, which is developed as an integral part of OpenBSD, but available in a portable variety too.

It was one of those things that I had fully intended to do years ago, but I only got around to actually doing once there was a definite deadline to get it done.

The time has come, as OpenBSD 7.9 will leave the exim package behind, and exim users will need to find a replacement before upgrading. This article describes my transition to OpenBSD's own OpenSMTPD mail server.

Switching from Proxmox to Sylve, FreeBSD Quarterly report, FreeBSD's laptop program, Migrating ZFS, Haiku and OpenSSL news, and more…

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and this time hopefully final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details.

• https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html

FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn't end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2...

Network-oriented readers will be familiar with the concept of overload tables, commonly used with state tracking options to create adaptive rulesets for such things as punishing password-guessing botnets. A downside to tables that would tend to fill up indefinitely is that at some point they will be quite full, and the administrator would need to either manually run pfctl expire or set up a crontab entry to weed out old entries at intervals.

Every single software product is dealing with the question about what to do with “AI”-generated code, but the question is particularly difficult to answer for open source operating systems like Linux distributions and the various BSDs, which often consist of a wide variety of software packages from hundreds to thousands of different developers. On top of that, they also have to ask the “AI” question for every layer of their offering, from the base install, to the official repositories, to community-run ones…

“The server feels slow.” It is the most common ticket text in the world, and the least useful. Before you can fix anything you need to know whether the box is CPU bound, memory pressured, waiting on disk, saturating a NIC, or simply running a runaway process in one jail that is starving everyone else. On jail hosts, the second half of the problem is attribution: not just what is overloaded, but which jail is responsible…

Florian Obser (florian@) recently gave a BSD-NL talk entitled "Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs".

Florian takes us on a guided tour of how inet6 autoconf actually works, with enlightening and entertaining peeks into selected piece of OpenBSD source.

At the end, we are asked to "now, draw the rest of the owl".

• slides: https://www.openbsd.org/events.html#bsdnl2026
• video: https://exquisite.tube/w/38gDYhMNTNZimk3GcFnHNa

An effort to revive and reinvigorate the 2002 Gtk2 GUI programming toolkit is growing and gaining interest… as we predicted would happen a few months ago.

With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news.