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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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  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?