From: Dima Pasechnik <dima@sagemath.org>
Subject: Re: Request: consider porting Signal
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:25:28 -0500

On October 6, 2026 5:00:42 PM CDT, Stefano L <skl246@tutamail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>I use OpenBSD as my daily driver and would like to ask whether anyone would consider porting a Signal client.
>Signal is the messenger many people around me use, and right now I have to keep another system or a phone at hand just for it. A native client on OpenBSD would remove that need.
>I understand Signal Desktop has a heavy dependency chain, so a lighter client would also be welcome if that is more realistic.
>If someone has already looked into this, I would like to know what blocks it. I am willing to test on amd64 (ThinkPad T490) and report back.
>Thank you for your work on OpenBSD.
>Best regards,

There are Rust clients for Signal. No idea whether any of them run on OpenBSD, but gurk (a CLI client) runs on Linux, last time I checked (in summer).

https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs

HTH
Dima