OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by benatkin » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 4:56 PM UTC

brynet wrote: post #9

Check out the release song! https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#68

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

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Post by moralsupply » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

I wonder what's the current state of desktop on OpenBSD

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

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Post by arexxbifs » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

brynet wrote: post #8

arexxbifs wrote: post #6

Does anyone know if the simpleaudio driver means there's now support for sound over HDMI?

Unrelated, this is an arm64 thing.

Thanks

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

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Post by crehn » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 5:05 PM UTC

kelp wrote: post #3

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 ol…

This reminds me of when you could order free Ubuntu CDs.

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

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Post by vidoc » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 5:26 PM UTC

moralsupply wrote: post #12

I wonder what's the current state of desktop on OpenBSD

The ps/2 mouse driver is now extremely stable!

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

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Post by zx2c4 » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

jsiepkes wrote: post #4

Interesting: Added wg(4), an in-kernel driver for WireGuard VPN communication.

Yup! Pretty exciting indeed. Now OpenBSD has first class support for WireGuard, out of the box. And all the usual tools such as wg(8) and wg-quick(8) work too.

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

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Post by mrweasel » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

moralsupply wrote: post #12

I wonder what's the current state of desktop on OpenBSD

That depends on what you do to be honest. Web, email, programming, spreedsheets, wordprocessing have been fine for over a decade. Heavy 3D stuff, not my first, second or third choice.

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

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Post by doublepg23 » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

I have been using OpenBSD the past few months/weeks on less common architectures (loongson and macppc). It’s taught me a lot and will enjoy updating to the new release!

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

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Post by tasogare » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 6:39 PM UTC

crehn wrote: post #14

kelp wrote: post #3

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 ol…

This reminds me of when you could order free Ubuntu CDs.

Still have one of those and one of OpenSolaris. That was great for testing, owning a physical object made it motivating to play with.

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

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Post by avhon1 » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 7:02 PM UTC

brynet wrote: post #9

Check out the release song! https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#68

I'm happy they haven't given up on release songs altogether. I can only imagine how much contributor time it takes to make them, but they are a wonderful bit of programmer culture.