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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.

    1. Re:PF, now... by lcde · · Score: 3, Interesting

      There has been a lot of babbling on the mailing list. Everyone is against it. They are sticking with 1.3.39 (i think) with all of their security fixes. There will only be updates for security reasons. To quote the general thoughts of the developers: "If you don't like it, don't bitch at us; Bitch at Apache"

      Anyway, nothing is stopping you from running 2.x or any other apache. It just won't be supported.

      I think that Carp/pfsync is more important than apache. Plus now there is some SMP to work with.

      Just my 2 cents.

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  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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    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.

  3. Re:They will fix the OBSD "virus", + more sec stuf by nacturation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Accordingly, word on the street is that significant effort this hackathon will be put into fixing the first ever OpenBSD virus...

    I think a fix has already been found for this particular "virus".

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  4. Re:They will fix the OBSD "virus", + more sec stuf by HSpirit · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's at times like this that we need a "-1: Idiocy of post only matched by idiocy of moderation" option for moderation.

  5. Re:A nice installer, after all? by Clover_Kicker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I installed 3.5 yesterday, oddly enough.

    It only took 15 minutes to install the base system. All my hardware autodetected without problems. What's wrong with the installer?