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OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)

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Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)

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Post by peatmoss »

As an occasional OpenBSD user since the early-ish days in the late 90s, this makes me feel old.

Congratulations on the release and for staying true to your vision all these years. OpenBSD still feels like an old friend from the moment I see that blue color on my console. Here’s to 25 more.

Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)

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Post by kelp »

I still kind of miss the CD releases. I bought every release from 2.3 to somewhere in the 4.x series, and had them all in a closet until a few years ago. Unfortunately I got rid of them in a fit of cleaning.

I regret it now. Since then I’ve gotten back into OpenBSD as an occasional user on a random server here and there, and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6. I bought it specifically for OpenBSD and it works great.

Those old CD sets were cool. Many included extra art work, song lyrics, install instructions and would boot and install for several architectures.

These days I mostly just run current snapshots, so a release has little impact for me personally. But it’s always fun to see OpenBSD still moving forward after 25 years.

Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)

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Post by ainar-g »

> Added support for set -o pipefail to ksh(1), potentially helping error checking.

I thought that that was a POSIX feature, and it was weird of OpenBSD's ksh to not have it, but apparently "-o pipefail" is not in POSIX[1]. Interesting!

Either way, congratulations to the OpenBSD team!

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

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