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Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by notaplumber » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 3:36 PM UTC

jolmg wrote: post #13

grenoire wrote: post #4

Love the release poster for this one.

That's pretty cool. I didn't know they made posters for each release. The one for 6.4 is also pretty cool.

They made professional quality release songs (and sold CD's) up until 6.0. A few extras showed up for 6.1-6.3 also.

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by riffraff » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 3:37 PM UTC

grenoire wrote: post #4

Love the release poster for this one.

I cannot understand the poster this time. I have actual problems identifying the elements: I see puffy at the top, a couple demonettes on the left, and a mask (?) in the bottom right, but everything else seems a mess. And I don't get what it refers to.

Is it a reference to some pop or niche culture bit ? Is it "6.6 is almost 666, so, devils"?

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by brynet » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 3:41 PM UTC

asveikau wrote: post #15

protomyth wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried on one of my machines. Seems to work fine. You still do the delete file step manually but that's minor. This is going to save a lot of effort on certain machines.

How does it handle sysmerge? Do you need to do that after it finishes? Or does it do the merges before reboot? I will play around with it in a few hours.

Some things will get merged automatically by the first run of sysmerge(8) after upgrade, if the machine is remote you should be able to run.

    $ doas dmesg -s

    -s      ... This can be used to review rc(8) system startup messages.

That should tell you if you need to run sysmerge manually, but well, it also doesn't hurt to do that every time anyway.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by thedaemon » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 3:45 PM UTC

riffraff wrote: post #22

grenoire wrote: post #4

Love the release poster for this one.

I cannot understand the poster this time. I have actual problems identifying the elements: I see puffy at the top, a couple demonettes on the left, and a mask (?) in the bottom right, but everything else seems a mess. And I don't get what it refers to. Is it a reference to some pop or niche culture bit ? Is it "6.6 is almost 666, so, devils"?

It is Heavy Metal music, and yes 666. Puffy is dressed as a member of the rock band KISS.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by oil25 » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 3:56 PM UTC

I've really been enjoying using OpenBSD full time, both on my desktop (AMD Ryzen build) as well as laptops (Lenovo X230, X1 Carbon). Everything literally "just works", the documentation is impeccable, and I love being able to install a new kernel and base system with one simple command ("sysupgrade"). About the only thing I still use Linux for is a browser with U2F support and Bluetooth - both are disabled in OpenBSD for security.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by cik » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

I still desperately want docker support. I know I can bhive and friends - but native docker support is critical to my every day, unfortunately. Heck, I'll take super decayed docker support!

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by messe » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 4:16 PM UTC

oil25 wrote: post #25

I've really been enjoying using OpenBSD full time, both on my desktop (AMD Ryzen build) as well as laptops (Lenovo X230, X1 Carbon). Everything literally "just works", the documentation is impeccable, and I love being able to install a new kernel and base system with one simple command ("sysupgrade"). About the only thing I still use Linux for is a browser with U2F support and Bluetooth - both are disabled in OpenBSD…

> Bluetooth [is] disabled in OpenBSD for security

A clarification on that point: OpenBSD's bluetooth stack was unmaintained and removed due to code rot; it's not that bluetooth as a protocol is inherently insecure.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by messe » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 4:17 PM UTC

cik wrote: post #26

I still desperately want docker support. I know I can bhive and friends - but native docker support is critical to my every day, unfortunately. Heck, I'll take super decayed docker support!

> bhive

bhyve is FreeBSD, not OpenBSD. OpenBSD has its own native hypervisor "vmm".

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by justinclift » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

> Added mcx(4) driver for Mellanox ConnectX-4 (and later) Ethernet controllers.

Interesting. Sounds like work is being done to support higher network throughput rates. :)

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

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Post by heinrichhartman » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 4:23 PM UTC

oil25 wrote: post #25

I've really been enjoying using OpenBSD full time, both on my desktop (AMD Ryzen build) as well as laptops (Lenovo X230, X1 Carbon). Everything literally "just works", the documentation is impeccable, and I love being able to install a new kernel and base system with one simple command ("sysupgrade"). About the only thing I still use Linux for is a browser with U2F support and Bluetooth - both are disabled in OpenBSD…

Very cool! What kind of software do you use on your machines?

- Are you doing docker in a Linux VM?

- Any graphical Applications other than Firefox and emacs?