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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. 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.

  2. Re:Yeah, sure by Tuzanor · · Score: 3, Informative
    yup, its free that runs on only x86 and alpha, though they have ultrasparc and PPC ports in the works. Remember, Open came off NetBSD's codebase, and when theo took it after he left, he took many of the more practical archs.

    When theo was with NetBSD he was the maintainer of the sparc port! There is talk of Open abandoning some of the older archs, though. Such as the older 68K's, the older HP archs, and such. They take up space on the CDs, plus SSH doesn't work very fast on them, either ;-)

  3. Re:Just give me SMP. by Tuzanor · · Score: 3, Informative
    NetBSD's SMP is not yet very mature. The reason for the slow SMP development is that none of the main developers are working on it. Theo said that his main priority right now is geting more crypto cards working. He has said that he would like to work more on SMP, but he isn't god and he just doesn't have time.

    All good things come to those who wait. When SMP does come to OpenBSD, it will be done right and we will get stable, secure code for it!

  4. Re:Just give me SMP. by friscolr · · Score: 3, Informative
    just read the mail list archives. there was talk about all this a few weeks ago.

    i think one of the threads about this started with http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0205/ms g01351.html or http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0205/th reads.html#01351 for the full thread of that one.

    SMP is really useful, but there are also a myriad applications where it's unnecessary.

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