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OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
- kelp 6y agoI still kind of miss the CD releases. I bought every release from 2.3 to somewhere in the 4.x series, and had them all in a closet until a few years ago. Unfortunately I got rid of them in a fit of cleaning. I regret it now. Since then I’ve gotten back into OpenBSD as an occasional user on a random server here and there, and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6. I bought it specifically for OpenBSD and it works great. Those old CD sets were cool. Many included extra art work, song lyrics, install instructions and would boot and install for several architectures. These days I mostly just run current snapshots, so a release has little impact for me personally. But it’s always fun to see OpenBSD still moving forward after 25 years.
- peatmoss 6y agoAs an occasional OpenBSD user since the early-ish days in the late 90s, this makes me feel old. Congratulations on the release and for staying true to your vision all these years. OpenBSD still feels like an old friend from the moment I see that blue color on my console. Here’s to 25 more.
- jsiepkes 6y agoInteresting: Added wg(4), an in-kernel driver for WireGuard VPN communication.
- i80and 6y agoPrevious discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23594707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23594707
- zx2c4 6y agoYup! Pretty exciting indeed. Now OpenBSD has first class support for WireGuard, out of the box. And all the usual tools such as wg(8) and wg-quick(8) work too.
- jlgaddis 6y agoWere those imported into the base system? I ask because I see that the wireguard-tools package (which contained just those two binaries) still exists for 6.8.
- job 6y agoNope. Keep in mind you don't need those tools to use wg. Wg was integrated in such a way that you use it with the normal tools like ifconfig
- 0ld 6y agoWhen it was added to current, I've even sysupgraded to snapshot just to test it. The setup is very straightforward, clean and easy, just like OBSD in general
- ainar-g 6y ago> Added support for set -o pipefail to ksh(1), potentially helping error checking. I thought that that was a POSIX feature, and it was weird of OpenBSD's ksh to not have it, but apparently "-o pipefail" is not in POSIX[1]. Interesting! Either way, congratulations to the OpenBSD team! [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#set https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
- arexxbifs 6y agoDoes anyone know if the simpleaudio driver means there's now support for sound over HDMI?
- xmichael99 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt The guy who founded and does a fair bit of the work. Interesting skim.
- brynet 6y agoCheck out the release song! https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#68 https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#68
- benatkin 6y agoObligatory zoidberg: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/your-musics-bad-and-you-should-feel-bad https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/your-musics-bad-and-you-shoul...
- avhon1 6y agoI'm happy they haven't given up on release songs altogether. I can only imagine how much contributor time it takes to make them, but they are a wonderful bit of programmer culture.
- moralsupply 6y agoI wonder what's the current state of desktop on OpenBSD
- vidoc 6y agoThe ps/2 mouse driver is now extremely stable!
- nix23 6y agoRight, but it's unusable on Linux...like systemd and pulseaudio :)
- IntelMiner 6y agoI've used both on every machine I've owned since 2013. Both desktop, laptop and server without complaint What issues have you had with them?
- nix23 6y agoIt was ironic...but with pulseaudio i had LOTS of problems. BTW: Why Pulseaudio on a Server?
- IntelMiner 6y agoNetwork audio for piping music around the house with Ras Pi's
- nix23 6y agoAh..good point. And yes i know it's not a big problem today but that thing needed lots of years to mature.
- scns 6y agoMan i had to laugh so hard. Thank you.
- doublepg23 6y agoI have been using OpenBSD the past few months/weeks on less common architectures (loongson and macppc). It’s taught me a lot and will enjoy updating to the new release!
- Panino 6y agoThis is my favorite release since 5.5, and is the codebase that finally pushed me to start running -current. Thank you OpenBSD developers! 2020 sucks and I feel so fortunate to WFH managing things that run on OpenBSD. If you're doing alright, please consider donating: https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
- cnst 6y agoTime flies. I still remember starting with OpenBSD in early noughties, I think 3.5 and 3.6 in 2004, which seemed like a mature and exciting project at that time already; fast-forward 2020, and it's amazing how far we've come. Great to have been part of it, another 25 years now!
- tharne 6y agoOpenBSD is a great project. The OpenBSD team isn't obsessed with pleasing everyone or getting mass adoption. They just focus on building a great OS for folks who appreciate that sort of thing. They know what they're about and that's why they've made it 25 years and will be doing their thing for another 25 years or more.