freebsd-wifibox
wifibox: Use Linux to drive your wireless card on FreeBSD (by pgj)
OpenDoas
A portable fork of the OpenBSD `doas` command (by Duncaen)
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139 | 603 | |
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7.1 | 0.0 | |
6 days ago | 2 months ago | |
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BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
freebsd-wifibox
Posts with mentions or reviews of freebsd-wifibox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
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Is FreeBSD considered more stable than Debian Linux?
WifiBox https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
- An interesting concept to overcome the severe limitations of WiFi drivers in FreeBSD
- Wifibox: Use Linux to drive your wireless card on FreeBSD
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MediaTek MT7921 Wireless LAN driver
I have the MT7922 (also an ASUS laptop, I wish they would just drop this brand) and about your only option is to run wifibox with a Linux kernel that supports this chip; if you want it to run natively. I gave up on that headache and instead run Fedora with QEMU/KVM and FreeBSD, which isn't an option for everyone.
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DragonFly BSD 6.4
You can use WifiBox[1], being a user of FreeBSD myself (Laptop, Workstation and many servers) it would be nice to have "native" ac/ax.
[1] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
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FreeBSD 13: Wifi with Wifibox
Credits to Gabor for the great work! (Link: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox)
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Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD
I hardly can take this as valid answer until https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox exists and in active use by FreeBSD users.
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Is there a list of supported WiFi cards in FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT?
Then this should help.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5544-1 Atheros ath9k wireless device driver
Thats what wifibox does on FreeBSD (though I believe the reason is more for drivers than for isolation): https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
- Considering FreeBSD as a desktop OS, curious about why it is not more used on the desktop. If you do not use it on desktop, which applications are missing? Any issues that prevent this use?
OpenDoas
Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenDoas.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-24.
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A simple guide for configuring sudo and doas
Aditionally,because doas was developed for OpenBSD,it also retains some of its quirks,like how user-installed executables are stored in /usr/local/bin,in contrast to /usr/bin where Linux stores them. As a result,doas can have problems on Linux so the following workaround can be used:
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The First Stable Release of a Rust-Rewrite Sudo Implementation
https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/issues/106
That's a pretty severe unsolved security issue.
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Doas – dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor
2. https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/blob/master/timestamp.c
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Testing the memory safe Rust implementation of Sudo/Su
If you want to move away from Sudo, but don't want to try this rust implementation just yet, I have had great success with OpenBSD's doas. It has been ported to every Linux distro I know of as well:
https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas
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Doas Mastery (2019)
There are, at both ends. Both the "script kiddies" who cannot deviate from scripts because they lack almost any knowledge at all; and the knowledgeable ones who know that there are subtle differences between sudo and doas which require doing things slightly differently to achieve the same effect.
* https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/issues/116#issuecomment-...
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Help me on gentoo
Doas makes more in openbsd world In linux there are many api that need to be changed for porting, i'm no expert but the port might be flawed as not many developers has checked the codebase And how can you explain this vulnerability https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/issues/106
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Linux users who are paranoid about security.... what's your opinion about OpenBSD?
Personally I'd prefer running Qubes OS, if only my device would have been more powerful. Currently I'm on Fedora Silverblue as I believe it provides a decent middle-ground in which I'm more secure than almost any other Linux distro while not losing any (meaningful) functionality. I do make use of doas and other technologies inspired from OpenBSD to further enhance the security.
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Sudo and Su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety
Why not port https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas to rust instead?
If the goal is security, then there is more to it than just using a memory safe language. Otherwise the result of this, possibly unwittingly, seems performative.
- Bringing Memory Safety to sudo and su
- Using doas instead of sudo on Debian 11
What are some alternatives?
When comparing freebsd-wifibox and OpenDoas you can also consider the following projects:
linux-browser-installer - Script to install Linux browsers under a Linux chroot on FreeBSD
doas - A port of OpenBSD's doas which runs on FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and illumos