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OpenBSD Hackathon

Posted by timothy on from the missing-a-monkey dept.

A secretive reader contributes: "Once again, almost all of the OpenBSD developers got together for a full week of intensive coding. Pictures from the hackathon are available for people who want to see how the developers of this fine OS look like. Theo de Raadt announced on the mailing list: 'There is a reason why such a flurry of commits is happening. Once again, we are doing a hackathon; this time in Calgary, for a full week leading up to usenix. Thus far, 32 people have arrived, and are hacking away in a hotel conference room, working on various things, but more people are still flying in from around the world ...'"

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  1. The amount of CVS commits is impressive... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been watching the CVS commit logs since the beginning of this event - number of bugs getting fixed and new features being added is very impressive.

    I especially like that more and more daemons loose their setgid and setuid privileges - great step towards improving the security.

  2. Re:Yeah, sure by Tuzanor · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It runs on it very well, check out Brad's computer. He goes to our local BSD user's group and I saw him recompiling a kernel on it. He says there were initially a few hickups but now that more and more developers are getting tibooks its getting better every day. As more and more macs are bought by people, support is only going to get better. OpenBSD has had a PPC port for quite awhile now.

    Brad also said that its only a matter of time before PPC replaces sparc as the second best supported platform (after x86 of course) because so many more people have them.

  3. Re:Just give me SMP. by spunkykuma · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NetBSD does not have SMP, but only as a branch in the -current kernel tree just as you see in OpenBSD. Infact, OpenBSD spawned off of NetBSD years ago and both are MOSIX based. A couple of us has gotten SMP working at the kernel-level but at userspace-level it is still useless, I personally think SMP is overrated but is useful in heavy applications such as SQL.
    At the moment, FreeBSD does have SMP, but realistically I've found Linux's SMP best on an ix86, that's just my opinion (yeah flame me :) ).

  4. The remaining few by mirabilos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For what it's worth, this was not much but a re-post
    of a mail from Theo de Raadt, the OpenBSD leader,
    to the "misc" mailing list.

    The remaining few hackers were either representing
    OpenBSD (and BSD in general) at the German LinuxTag
    in Karlsruhe (Wim Vandeputte, the "leader" for Europe,
    and (more unknown) Christian Weisgerber and me...

    And one was unable to get a passport from the
    French authorities - seems as they are jealous
    to the German bureaucracy ;-)

    --
    My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And /. still does not get UTF-8 right in 2012. Wow.)
  5. Re:Just give me SMP. by wilton · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I heard an interesting rumour about OpenBSD's planned SMP support.

    Apparently they were going to arrange it so that one CPU would be doing the normal OS stuff and the other CPU would just do crypto work.

    This sounds simple and effective. Whilst not true SMP, it would make the machine faster, and use both CPUs.

    --
    per mere, per terras