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OpenBSD 5.9
- jrcii 11y agoHilariously these releases are apparently accompanied by songs with choruses that make reference to "secure by default" http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song59b.mp3 http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song59b.mp3 To me, there's nothing quite like the feeling OpenBSD offers you of running `ps -ax` and seeing a nice, clean, minimal list of essential processes.
- Esau 11y agoIt is the same with NetBSD, which I love, although it annoys me that Inetd is turned on by default.
- wsfull 11y agoGenerally, very little is "turned on by default" which sets this OS apart. Where are you getting your rc.conf? This looks reasonably conservative: 1 line. /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-6/src/etc/rc.conf: rc_configured=NO
- wolf550e 11y agowhy are the gcc and llvm versions so old? everything else seems recent.
- brynet 11y agoOpenBSD's base gcc is a fork of the last GPLv2 version, like Apple and embedded except with many local changes, e.g. gcc-local(1): http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/gcc-local.1 http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/gcc-local.1 There's newer versions of gcc in ports, llvm/clang was recently updated to 3.7.1, post 5.9.
- wolf550e 11y agoThe last GPLv2 GCC is 4.2.1. OpenBSD has 4.9.3 (they also have 4.2.1 and 3.3.6). Why not 5.3? Why was clang updated post 5.9? How long do they take to stabilize a release?
- cm3 11y agoOpenBSD isn't the only system that's avoided gcc5 due to the breaking C++ ABI changes.
- pjmlp 11y agoWhich bring lots of fun when trying to use binary builds of Swift, for example.
- cm3 11y agoDo you mean linking C++ .so built by gcc5?
- pjmlp 11y agoNo just plain Swift. For example the binaries for Ubuntu 14.04 don't work if the newer GCC is already installed. Swift compiler will fail to find the modules due to an ABI error as it will interpret the function call results from libstd++ as failure. The workaround is to re-compile everything with the new version.
- dijit 11y agoThis release brings 802.11n into the kernel, and, of course, pledge in all coreutils and chromium! :D
- notaplumber 11y agoAll correct, except BSD doesn't use GNU coreutils.
- elchief 11y agoIs it just me or is OpenBSD's ldapd the only LDAP server with bcrypt password hashing built-in? I've seen extensions/plugins for the other guys, but not built-in Also, nice to see pledge in the smtp server and mutt, and ChaCha20 in IPSEC
- krylon 11y agoHuh, I was not even aware OpenBSD had an LDAP server in the base system. ... Apparently, the Internet tells me just now, they have had it for a while now. Who would have known? This makes me think of a comment I read around the time of the 5.8 release to the effect that with any other project this would reek of not-invented-here syndrome, except that the OpenBSD people have such a superb track record for getting things right. ;-)
- krylon 11y agoDon't get me wrong, I am not complaining - but why is this news (again)? 5.9 came out, what, two weeks ago. On the other hand, who doesn't love OpenBSD news. So today allow me to point out that since I am a sysadmin at a mostly-Windows shop, I really like how modest OpenBSD's hardware requirements are. If you keep the workload appropriately modest, it can run on 128MB of RAM (probably a lot less, I did not try that hard) on a hard disk that is smaller than Windows' installation DVD and perform useful work. Obviously, the comparison is not without problems, but it comes in handy to explain to people why in some ways I am astonished that you need a dual-core CPU with 8GB of RAM just to run Outlook, Excel and a remote desktop session.
- gh02t 11y agoYeah I run OpenBSD on an absolutely ancient Atom-based Dell netbook as a beater machine to carry around when I need a portable terminal. With a minimal wm it's surprisingly usable on a machine that was considered underpowered even when it was new, though Firefox chugs and stutters a bit.