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OpenBSD 6.2 Released (openbsd.org)
basscomm writes: OpenBSD 6.2 has now been released. Check out the release notes if you're into that kind of thing. Some of the new features and systems include improved hardware support, vmm(4)/ vmd(8) improvements, IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements, generic network stack improvements, installer improvements, routing daemons and other userland network improvements, security improvements and more. Here is the full list of changes.
After years of using various Linux distros, switching to FreeBSD was the best thing I could do, for professional use on the servers and of lately even on the desktop.
I've been conditioned with Linux to expect a mess. Every time I needed to fix something it was mess upon mess of lacking or plain wrong documentation, haphazard collection of wannabe standards, and overall feeling of something being permanently broken.
I actually had to put up some effort and re-train myself with the stability and sanity of BSD. Clean code, clean layout, tools that work, do one thing and do it well. For example, the gpart partitioning tool with all the features needed, unlike a roll-your-dice choice whether to use parted, gparted, fdisk, cfdisk, sgdisk and whatever else. It's in the base OS, well documented and clean. Incredibly, no linux partitioning utility has such a clean, scriptable interface.
The boot process is clean and straightforward. I've never had to mess with it like I've had with grub and especially grub2. No arcane config syntax, no (again) a billion tools to configure it. Is it grub-mkconfig, is it update-grub, grub-update, grub2-update, or what the hell is it.
Oh I could go on, and on....