OpenBSD 7.9

mghackerlady

Sweet, I was just wondering when 7.9 would release. And with a song! We haven't gotten one of those in a while iirc

kvuj

A song released with it too! So much care for OpenBSD.

alex1138

BSDs are interesting projects. As I understand it there's a broad difference of them all doing things reasonably well but a) Free is general-purpose, b) Net is especially portable/many architecture and Open is security focused

systems

the canadian OS :)

clbrmbr

Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).

nelsonic

With all the security issues constantly being uncovered in other Operating Systems - which will only accelerate with Ai - it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD. Their decades-long security-focus is second to none. We have fully converted from Ubuntu/Debian to OpenBSD. No looking back.

tiffanyh

> Replaced the cas spinlock in kernel mutexes with a "parking" lock. Anyone know what a "parking lock" is (and how it works)? I couldn't find anything on the man pages about it. https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.5/lock.9 https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.9/mutex.9

ska80

I wish OpenBSD supported Bluetooth. Unfortunately, its absence is a deal breaker for me. I did use OpenBSD on the desktop it was great.

Decabytes

How do the various BSDs run on framework laptops?

nubg

ang benchmarks against state of the art?

kriro

I used it a bit, had it installed for a while on a G4 PowerBook (must have been early-ish 2000s). I like the no-nonsense attitude towards blobs, security focus. Overall the experience was very good. The bit of code I read was also written nicely. I'll always endorse it and should really install it somewhere again in the near future. This is also the 60th release. Congrats team.

unethical_ban

Neat that they're working on Intel's p/e/l core support. I was just comparing Linux and windows support history the other day.

sgt

Direct link to the song so you can play in the browser: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song79.ogg

brynet

OpenBSD 7.9 release artwork by Lyra Henderson https://www.openbsd.org/images/PinkPuffy.png https://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy79.gif Release song is "Diamond in the Rough" - Composed & produced by Bob Kitella. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#79 Apparel (t-shirts, so far): https://openbsdstore.com/

binkHN

While I daily Linux on my workstation, OpenBSD is my favorite OS, by far, and I use it wherever it makes sense for me.

sunshine-o

I would really love to adopt OpenBSD but the one thing I can't deal with is the absence of journalized filesystem. Just the idea not to be able to recover after a power cut and work is hard to accept to be honest. I have been recently considering running it on a minimal Alpine ZFS host but I am not sure how much I can optimize the display experience since I do not think OpenBSD support QXL/SPICE. I would be curious if someone found a way...

brynet

Announcement mail: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=177919671915512&w=2

Dyympps

i use it and its secure

efxhoy

> Enabled IPv6 autoconf (SLAAC) by default. Sweet! I’m just about to replace pfsense with openbsd on my router. Smoothly setting up ipv6 is a bit of a headscratcher atm, mainly because i’ve never had to understand it before.

Tepix

I wonder why they didn‘t spend 20 minutes to make that web page work better with smartphones.