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OpenBSD 6.0 Released (sdtimes.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

LichtSpektren writes: Version 6.0 of the free operating system OpenBSD has just been released. This release features much improved hardware and armv7 support, a new tool called proot for building software ports in an isolated chroot environment, W^X that is now strictly enforced by default, and removal of official support for Linux emulation, usermount, and systrace. The release announcement can be read here. The release is OpenBSD's 40th release on CD-ROM and 41st release via FTP/HTTP.

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  1. The best feature is the lack of systemd. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best feature is the lack of systemd.

    1. Re:The best feature is the lack of systemd. by mallyn · · Score: 2

      Folks: Can you please knock off the childish behavior? Dorothy Gove, the director of my childhood montessori school (and whos mentor is Mrs. Montessori herself) is spinning so fast in her grave that the neighbours of the cemetery are filing noise complaints with the Winchester, Massachusetts police :(

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    2. Re:The best feature is the lack of systemd. by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Informative

      BSDs are actually attempting to copy the new Linux network code, since it's years ahead of the BSDs.

      Hmm, that must be why Netflix and WhatsApp run FreeBSD (Netflix alone being responsible for over 30% of of US Internet traffic and able to saturate multiple 40GigE links from a single server with SSL) and why Facebook posted a job advert for a Linux kernel dev a few months ago with the goal of 'making the Linux network stack competitive with FreeBSD within 5 years'.

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    3. Re:The best feature is the lack of systemd. by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2

      The company in question has one of the top 10 largest Linux deployments in the world. If they can't make Linux work, then that doesn't reflect well on Linux.

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  2. Good Heavens! by SeattleLawGuy · · Score: 2

    OpenBSD? Good Heavens! It's still around?

    What have you used it for lately?

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    1. Re:Good Heavens! by ArchieBunker · · Score: 2

      I'm using it right now for a personal http/minecraft/cctv server. I like how minimal the install is. You get a base OS and then add the packages and customize the scripts as needed. I don't need 30 included text editors that are all terrible and 10,000 libraries that all need weekly security patches.

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    2. Re:Good Heavens! by iggymanz · · Score: 2

      servers in my domains, been doing so since 2001. Great general purpose OS for people that value stability and security and non-bloat

    3. Re:Good Heavens! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Been using it since 2005 as my net gateway. Runs a bunch of services and provides net to the home. Never had a problem. Upgrading every release, twice a year like clockwork.

    4. Re:Good Heavens! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Been using it since 2005 as my net gateway. Runs a bunch of services and provides net to the home. Never had a problem. Upgrading every release, twice a year like clockwork.

      That's exactly how Grandma does it.

      As you get older you will learn that grandma was a lot smarter than you thought.

    5. Re:Good Heavens! by serviscope_minor · · Score: 2

      OpenBSD is rock solid and a pleasure to use. Try it, you may like it.

      It's also a pleasure to develop for. The man pages are a joy. You can just man dev files and get the kernel documentation. Fantastic!

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  3. R.I.P. VAX by chrism238 · · Score: 4, Informative

    VAX support removed from OpenBSD. Now *that* should have been the headline!

    1. Re:R.I.P. VAX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      So they're an anti-VAXer now?

  4. Re:Linux binary compatibility, too by iggymanz · · Score: 2

    That's a strange thing to say to a Unix sys admin who is older than Unix.

    I have nostalgia for useful things but this Linux compat thing was useless for years, the usual open source wares run without it and it wasn't maintained

  5. Re:The EU is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fact: The EU is dying

    And THAT, my friend, is directly attibutable to the spread of systemd.

  6. Linus and Theo in a pissing contest (again) by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 5, Informative

    Two things caught my eye in the release notes:

    Security improvements:
    * Remove systrace.
    * Remove Linux emulation support.

    Theo has some cool slides about "Pledge" that replaced systrace. Slide 3 has this "gem":

    "Loudmouth Linus"
    http://www.openbsd.org/papers/...

    Note: NSFW

    That was a response to Linus saying "the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys."
    http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...

    Ouch.

    Wow, not even the alternative OS's are free from drama -- sad to see Linus (Linux) and Theo (OpenBSD) having to resort to name calling over "best practices" about security.

    Theo might be getting the last laugh though:

    http://www.openbsd.org/papers/...
    http://www.openbsd.org/papers/...

    Adopted some designs from others. We are know for PUSHING mitigations into mainstream use:

    - stack protector
    - W^X
    - ASLR
    - malloc with seatbelts
    - priv- separation & priv-drop

    I guess if name calling helps make the OS's better so be it. :-)