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Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 (openbsd.org)

Posted by timothy on from the maturity-and-innovation dept.

badger.foo writes: 20 years to the day after the OpenBSD source tree was created for the new project, the project has released OpenBSD 5.8, the 38th release on CD-ROM (and 39th via FTP/HTTP). This release comes with four release songs instead of the usual one, and a long list of improvements over the last releases. (Probably a good time to donate to the project, too, even if you don't use it directly, because of all the security improvements that OpenBSD programmers contribute to the world.)

2 of 158 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Does it have systemd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, I don't know of any OpenBSD 'features' that involve pissing off its userbase with half-functioning, amorphous garbage code like systemd.

  2. Best. Release note. Ever. by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 4, Funny

    As an engineer who knows the pain of debugging someone else's locking problems, I lost it when I read this release note:

    Acquire the kernel lock in pmap_remove(). The reasons for this can't be stated as the committer has been asked to be polite in his commit message.