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For those of you who are looking at a reason to play around with openBSD, there might be some progress at getting it to run at the Raspberry pi 2 and 3: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147059203101111&w=2 Probably not going to happen, but it runs on some other ARM7 SBCs. Mine is running FreeBSD currently, but where is the geek cred in that?
This seems like a big deal: One thing to note: this will be the last version of OpenBSD to be pressed on CD. The project will now focus on internet-only distribution, giving much more flexibility in the release schedule.
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Gets PF for free, complains.
Gmail is free, would you be happy if they updated it and your email didn't work anymore? I love OpenBSD but they constantly change the rule syntax for pf, which invalidates huge swaths of forum posts and other online documentation, even published books. The man page doesn't contain every conceivable explanation and example for every scenario either, nor could it, so that is also not a solution. Whether or not the pri…
It's good that they have their priorities straight. No more Linux binaries support (who need compatibility anyways?), but instead you get 5 songs sung by the project leader.
I love BSD and would like to use it, but we're kinda in a Linux world. Question: If I am building a custom hardware device (and we will be in the future, I believe) can we run OpenBSD on it using the ARM port, but also invoke binaries created for linux? It appears that support was removed. In the near term I need to build for Linux, But eventually we'll be able to target our own hardware, and one of our toolchain ite…
For those of you who are looking at a reason to play around with openBSD, there might be some progress at getting it to run at the Raspberry pi 2 and 3: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147059203101111&w=2 Probably not going to happen, but it runs on some other ARM7 SBCs. Mine is running FreeBSD currently, but where is the geek cred in that?
I've wondered about OpenBSD on the NTC CHIP computer. I have one that I haven't quite gotten around to doing anything with that I'd love to OpenBSD-ify.
On one hand I've seen threads on HN and Reddit saying how OpenBSD works flawlessly, esp. on various Thinkpads. OTOH I read in-depth reports like these, by OpenBSD insiders who know far more than I ever will, and even their results seem insufficient:
* https://gist.github.com/reyk/80dca43c8bcfa76d2a7ff147ea64d44...
e.g., "The [wlan] connection is sometimes not stable or the firmware shows errors when switching the AP configuration. But stsp@ is actively working on improving it!"
* http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/Thinkpad-Carbon-X1-2015
* https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145275871714024&w=2
EDIT: For those interested in this topic, I would start with tedunangst's excellent summary from earlier this year. Thank you Ted!:
I love BSD and would like to use it, but we're kinda in a Linux world. Question: If I am building a custom hardware device (and we will be in the future, I believe) can we run OpenBSD on it using the ARM port, but also invoke binaries created for linux? It appears that support was removed. In the near term I need to build for Linux, But eventually we'll be able to target our own hardware, and one of our toolchain ite…
The support for this isn't in NetBSD either but there has been a request to add it in order to run a Citrix app.