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OpenBSD Hackathon Underway

Posted by timothy on from the so-don't-even-ask dept.

Triumph The Insult C writes "Aside from some stealth developers, the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, held in Calgary, is underway, according to Theo. They've been doing some recent work on SMP, and have some impressive AMD SMP gear there that they've got to hack around with. A few years ago, it was PF. Who knows what they'll come up with this time that knocks our socks off."

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  1. PF, now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If history repeats itself, it'd be an Apache clone.

  2. it's scary by ArbitraryConstant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These hackathons always scare me a bit. Major functionality has a habbit of going from non-existant to solid before it's over.

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    I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
    1. Re:it's scary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      From the outside, it always looks as if it's been thrown together at the hackathon. But the developers have repeatedly made comments along the lines of "we'd been discussing this for months/years and had come up with a good design, which we implemented over the last 48 hours".

      Good code always comes in about a 10:1 planning:implementing ratio.