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Is it just me, or is the first time that "OpenBSD" and "New" were in the same sentence? I love OpenBSD, but in fairness, its biggest virtue is usually its rock
by cykros 4y ago
Is it just me, or is the first time that "OpenBSD" and "New" were in the same sentence? I love OpenBSD, but in fairness, its biggest virtue is usually its rock solid stability and security, derived from everything in it generally being long battle tested before ever going into OpenBSD. The idea of bleeding edge C compilers seems a bit strange, given that reputation.
- practice9 4y agoIt's probably Debian you thinking of
- naniwaduni 4y agoNot really, no? Plenty of bleeding-edge goes into OpenBSD, most of it never makes it out to the rest of the world before being battle-tested there.
- paldepind2 4y agoThe "new" in the headline refers to these compilers being newly ported to OpenBSD. OpenBSD also sometimes gets new features, sees new releases, etc. There's nothing weird about seeing "new" and "OpenBSD" in the same headline.
- asveikau 4y ago> OpenBSD also sometimes ... sees new releases They do two releases per year on a schedule.
- bejelentkezni 4y agoIt got a brand-new filesystem a couple years ago.
- nix23 4y agoUFS2 from FreeBSD? Brand-new??
- aidenn0 4y agoThe default install is stable and secure; the ports tree is much less so. People experimenting with things on their personal workstations is a complete free-for-all.
- asveikau 4y agoThis is an experimental port and not about replacing clang. That said, OpenBSD does introduce new stuff often. Over the years, they've periodically rewritten a handful of crusty old daemons for example.
- xemdetia 4y agoI would say that for a lot of daemons OpenBSD ends up with more interesting and cleaner versions than some of the ancient BSD ilk or with some of the complexity of the GNU replacements. It's often a lot easier to port part of/some of an OpenBSD daemon with just a little bit of hacking around instead of figuring out a bigger autotools chain.