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Likely because the author doesn't care about that and are productivity focused. Besides, OpenBSD uses the same drivers as Linux, ported to the OpenBSD kernel. https://github.com/op…

Although as mentioned in the article, this won't work on systems like *BSD, Solaris or macOS.

> And while it is likely that dhclient will eventually be removed from OpenBSD Base, it will live on in Ports, where it will be available to those who desire to use it: To be clear…

It definitely should not have been, this is news related to OpenBSD, there are no portable versions of either daemon.

I don't buy this. Some Acer laptops in the past have required that you set a Supervisor BIOS password in order to change the Secure Boot settings, but after you do that you can set…

It's looking very much like it will, but even if that wasn't the case, it's already widely in use and available in OS libc's and easy to copy, and it has been since OpenBSD first i…

> strlcpy... it’s not standard so it doesn’t satisfy 5 either. It's a de facto standard supported on *BSD/macOS/Android/Linux(w/ musl libc) and a number of other commercial systems…

I unfortunately skimmed over this, isotopp's explanation helped clear things up in my head.

Thanks for this part, I feel like this was a crucial piece of information I was missing. Also explains my observations about TRIM not being as important as people claim it is, the …

> Because flash does not overwrite anything, ever. This is repeated multiple times in the article, and I refuse to believe it is true. If NVME/SSDs never overwrote anything, they w…

This is HN, I'm sure people would appreciate hearing the details. Like how does this integrate with OpenBSD's existing audio/graphics stacks, do you plan to upstream your work? Wit…

> I modified the OpenBSD kernel for the raspberry pi with gaming related extensions, in such a way that when the game runs there is no latency and no stuttering. What does that eve…

> "OpenBSD users: Hi Mark!" This is Mark Kettenis, who has despite comments made jokingly by marcan, been working with a few other OpenBSD developers to bring-up OpenBSD/arm64 on t…

Why wouldn't it be true? It's not as if the source and images aren't available for you to look at for yourself. As for why BSD isn't more popular than Linux, well, that's a much bi…

EULAs are not legally binding in many jurisdictions.

Perhaps that's true. From what I read it shipped in a non-working state (manuals were there, but not some utilities were not), and I recall Apple engineers came out on Twitter sayi…

Why would Apple go through the effort of adding support for booting alternative OS's on M1 Macs and then stand in the way of implementing drivers for the hardware? That doesn't mak…

Sure there are, it's called brcmfmac. If the AsahiLinux team hasn't already got it working, certainly Corellium did a few months ago in their much hyped public demo image. https://…

Because software patents should not be legal, and are not enforceable in many sane jurisdictions, e.g: Europe. I'd much rather stick with "archaic" but understandable licenses like…

Can you setup Starlink without the app, i.e: no cell phone? I'm getting real tired of devices that have no management/setup UI of their own.

All true, thanks for answering.

Sure that's fair, just thought it was interesting to point out the progress they've been making, especially with their 50th release around the corner (6.9 is due May 1st), and M1 S…

OpenBSD has no equivalent to FreeBSD's support tiers, but arm64/aarch64 is supported with binary packages and syspatches today. https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html Amusing seeing pe…