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Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#71

Just keeps getting better and better every release. I wish they would add an easy encryption option in the installer. You can enable full disk encryption, but you have to mess with the bioctl settings, which potentially scares off new users.

There's some hints they plan to do so, in the release notes.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#72

The OpenBSD developers are not too thrilled to hear about these sorts of issues, but looks like sysupgrade installed sets I didn't have before (x*66.tgz, game66.tgz).

If you hadn't seen it, you may find this recent discussion about sysupgrade informative: https://marc.info/?t=156851721400002&r=1&w=2

And yeah, you're right, even light criticism on the OpenBSD lists is met with a very strong and negative reaction. That said, I think improvement suggestions that come with a diff and a constructive attitude are generally well received.

Also sysupgrade is a pretty brief ksh script, so fairly easy to see what it's doing.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#73
post #68

The OpenBSD developers are not too thrilled to hear about these sorts of issues, but looks like sysupgrade installed sets I didn't have before (x*66.tgz, game66.tgz).

OpenBSD developers have not really made it official but basically you're supposed to install them all. Theo has hinted at merging them before. syspatch(8) also assumed them to be installed IIRC.

for one of Theo's recent hints see: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156932725121978&w=2

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#74
post #69

Can't wait to try if this release will improve wireless performance when configured as an AP, until now I have never been able to get speeds above 10 Mbps with OpenBSD.

OpenBSD only supports 802.11n currently. From what I've read, not having direct knowledge, 802.11ac is much more complex to implement and no one is currently working on it.

That said, I just ran a speed test on my Thinkpad and got 50Mbps.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#75

The OpenBSD developers are not too thrilled to hear about these sorts of issues, but looks like sysupgrade installed sets I didn't have before (x*66.tgz, game66.tgz).

In the 90s disks were smaller and it might have made more sense to exclude compilers or exclude X. I used to not put X on headless machines. But today disk space is big and cheap.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#76
post #74
post #69

Can't wait to try if this release will improve wireless performance when configured as an AP, until now I have never been able to get speeds above 10 Mbps with OpenBSD.

OpenBSD only supports 802.11n currently. From what I've read, not having direct knowledge, 802.11ac is much more complex to implement and no one is currently working on it. That said, I just ran a speed test on my Thinkpad and got 50Mbps.

I would be more than happy if I only could get same speed as with my old Linksys WRT54GL. Currently the AP is forced to 802.11g because performance of 802.11n was much worse.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#77
post #73
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenBSD developers have not really made it official but basically you're supposed to install them all. Theo has hinted at merging them before. syspatch(8) also assumed them to be installed IIRC.

for one of Theo's recent hints see: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156932725121978&w=2

Why ruin it for the majority because a few doesn't known what they are doing? I know the argument is that everyone has the disk space these days, but I still don't like to install the entire X window system, compilers etc. for a small embedded system. What's next, force install of Libreoffice and Firefox because a few desktop users can't use the package manager?

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#78
post #4

Love the release poster for this one.

Is there any way to buy a print, or get a high-quality image for printing at home? The expanded version on the website is a pretty gnarly non-animated GIF.

You could try tweeting/DM'ing the artist: https://twitter.com/natazilla

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#80

The OpenBSD developers are not too thrilled to hear about these sorts of issues, but looks like sysupgrade installed sets I didn't have before (x*66.tgz, game66.tgz).

It does that. You can hack the script to only install partial sets, but you're encouraged to install all the sets. I've seen at least one mention on the mailing list about merging the sets because the recommendation is to always install all of them anyway. They're just files on disk if you're not using them.

Instead of hacking the script, you can run it with -n. You can then edit /auto_uograde.conf before reboot to instruct the installer to only install the desired sets.

As noted elsewhere, the developers recommend installing all sets. I personally prefer to avoid installing the X sets on servers.

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