> Replaced the cas spinlock in kernel mutexes with a "parking" lock.
Anyone know what a "parking lock" is (and how it works)?
I couldn't find anything on the man pages about it.
OpenBSD 7.9
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Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#22the canadian OS :)
Yes free from American restrictions. Because America law prohibits from giving out cryptography to outside countries so according to OpenBSD we outsiders have no luck in getting a cryptographically secure operating system except for OpenBSD
That isn't a thing anymore iirc
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#23> Replaced the cas spinlock in kernel mutexes with a "parking" lock. Anyone know what a "parking lock" is (and how it works)? I couldn't find anything on the man pages about it. https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.5/lock.9 https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.9/mutex.9
"Parking" lock is a reference to this:
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#24Sweet, I was just wondering when 7.9 would release. And with a song! We haven't gotten one of those in a while iirc
I always check their releases to get the song, like in other thread.. last song was 7.3
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#25I wish OpenBSD supported Bluetooth. Unfortunately, its absence is a deal breaker for me. I did use OpenBSD on the desktop it was great.
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#26> Replaced the cas spinlock in kernel mutexes with a "parking" lock. Anyone know what a "parking lock" is (and how it works)? I couldn't find anything on the man pages about it. https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.5/lock.9 https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.9/mutex.9
"Parking" lock is a reference to this: https://webkit.org/blog/6161/locking-in-webkit/
Thanks!
Wow, this is from 10-years ago.
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#27With all the security issues constantly being uncovered in other Operating Systems - which will only accelerate with Ai - it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD. Their decades-long security-focus is second to none. We have fully converted from Ubuntu/Debian to OpenBSD. No looking back.
What? How long did it take?
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#28Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).
Not really, but OpenBSD has been in my life for 25 years.
I used OpenBSD to create the firewalls for our LAN parties when I was at school.
The first shellserver I ran, on an UltraSparc IIi was OpenBSD, gave out accounts to my friends.
And then I used it as a firewall, both professionally and personally, for many years. Until the first Turris Omnia was released, and now I have retired even Turris for pfSense, which is FreeBSD I believe.
But the PF firewall in OpenBSD was superior, definitely to the syntax of IPtables.
To me Linux was a great server OS, and OpenBSD was a great FW/Gateway OS.
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#29With all the security issues constantly being uncovered in other Operating Systems - which will only accelerate with Ai - it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD. Their decades-long security-focus is second to none. We have fully converted from Ubuntu/Debian to OpenBSD. No looking back.
>it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD
https://x.com/ortegaalfredo/status/2055362910415671459
When your super secure feature gets defeated by a symlink maybe it's not really time to consider it...
Sure, things are not better in the linux world but at least there's more eyes to fix issues there just because of the market share.
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#30Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).
We use OpenBSD for our VPSes on Hetzner, bare metal (for security focussed clients) and older (but still good) hardware in our Home Lab. OpenBSD is excellent on older (no longer supported by Cupertino) Apple hardware. We have an Intel Mac Mini Cluster with near-perfect uptime. If you need to run any kind of server (Web, Mail, DNS, NFS, Database) where you need stability & security, look no further. Some learning curv…
Have you tried such Openbsd installations vs FreeBSD? I forget the differences between OpenBSD and FreeBSD, so forgive the naivety. (I think NetBSD is more for embedded stuff, and Ghost and Dragonfly are more for conventional desktop use-cases if i recall correctly.)
I'm asking because i have not touched any BSD for over 2 decades...and I'm getting the itch to try some out...and was wondering if for server-type use cases (like you noted) whether OpenBSD is preferred over FreeBSD or the reverse, and why? Thanks in advance for any feedback you might provide!