OpenBSD 5.0 Released

Post by adestefan » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:15 PM UTC

dmm wrote: post #13

ImCEOBitch wrote: post #10

I used to love OpenBSD but I've had to abandon it: - no sendfile implementation to accelerate web servers - ancient userland pthread implementation - worst SMP implementation of any mainstream OS - no unified buffer cache - no working TRIM support - no 802.11n support - video card drivers aging, ~3 years behind mainstream - no adobe flash support / hackarounds The only thing I really miss is PF.

> - ancient userland pthread implementation There is support for kernel threads in the form of a flag on rfork(2). The golang port uses this. The pthreads library is still the shitty userland one though. OpenBSD is great because the man pages aren't absolute shit like Linux and networking is so much better. Linux wifi drivers are absolute crap in comparison. Configure WPA on OpenBSD: ifconfig nwid wpa wpakey up; dhcl…

  wpa_passphrase   > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
  wpa_supplicant -i -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
  dhclient 

Post by tedunangst » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:22 PM UTC

hackermom wrote: post #11

ImCEOBitch wrote: post #10

I used to love OpenBSD but I've had to abandon it: - no sendfile implementation to accelerate web servers - ancient userland pthread implementation - worst SMP implementation of any mainstream OS - no unified buffer cache - no working TRIM support - no 802.11n support - video card drivers aging, ~3 years behind mainstream - no adobe flash support / hackarounds The only thing I really miss is PF.

OpenBSD was never meant to be a desktop BSD. You should take a look at FreeBSD instead.

Post by KonradKlause » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 7:09 PM UTC

dmm wrote: post #13

ImCEOBitch wrote: post #10

I used to love OpenBSD but I've had to abandon it: - no sendfile implementation to accelerate web servers - ancient userland pthread implementation - worst SMP implementation of any mainstream OS - no unified buffer cache - no working TRIM support - no 802.11n support - video card drivers aging, ~3 years behind mainstream - no adobe flash support / hackarounds The only thing I really miss is PF.

> - ancient userland pthread implementation There is support for kernel threads in the form of a flag on rfork(2). The golang port uses this. The pthreads library is still the shitty userland one though. OpenBSD is great because the man pages aren't absolute shit like Linux and networking is so much better. Linux wifi drivers are absolute crap in comparison. Configure WPA on OpenBSD: ifconfig nwid wpa wpakey up; dhcl…

Post by KaeseEs » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 7:34 PM UTC

ez77 wrote: post #20

copper wrote: post #3

My favourite bit from the (as always, impressive) changelog: For additional security, security(8) was rewritten in Perl.

That reason seems pretty shallow coming from the OBSD team... How can changing the language make it more secure by itself? Is a rewrite in C the next planned enhancement?

Post by there » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 8:04 PM UTC

KaeseEs wrote: post #28

ez77 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That reason seems pretty shallow coming from the OBSD team... How can changing the language make it more secure by itself? Is a rewrite in C the next planned enhancement?

Is security(8) setuid? perl does a number of things to make setuid Perl scripts more secure than either setuid schell scripts or C programs (cf. taint mode).