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

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Post by job » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 8:19 AM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #30

zx2c4 wrote: post #16

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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.

Were those imported into the base system? I ask because I see that the wireguard-tools package (which contained just those two binaries) still exists for 6.8.

Nope. Keep in mind you don't need those tools to use wg. Wg was integrated in such a way that you use it with the normal tools like ifconfig

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

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Post by nix23 » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 9:37 AM UTC

IntelMiner wrote: post #27

nix23 wrote: post #26

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It was ironic...but with pulseaudio i had LOTS of problems. BTW: Why Pulseaudio on a Server?

Network audio for piping music around the house with Ras Pi's

Ah..good point. And yes i know it's not a big problem today but that thing needed lots of years to mature.

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

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Post by nix23 » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 9:41 AM UTC

tssva wrote: post #28

kelp wrote: post #23

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Gnome and KDE are in the ports tree and kept very up to date. Everything there basically works. Most supported hardware just works out of the box with very little tinkering. Of course there is less hardware supported than Linux and support can lag a bit, since there are few people writing drivers. But modern Thinkpads work quite well. All that said, I have found Gnome to feel a little slow on OpenBSD compared to runn…

How is battery life and suspend/resume support for Thinkpads?

On my x260 it works perfectly fine. Battery life is the same as with Linux and about ~1hour less as with windows.

But i use just i3 and some tools.

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

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Post by scns » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 1:07 PM UTC

vidoc wrote: post #15

moralsupply wrote: post #12

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

The ps/2 mouse driver is now extremely stable!

Man i had to laugh so hard. Thank you.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 8:39 PM UTC

moralsupply wrote: post #12

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

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

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Post by tharne » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

OpenBSD is a great project. The OpenBSD team isn't obsessed with pleasing everyone or getting mass adoption. They just focus on building a great OS for folks who appreciate that sort of thing. They know what they're about and that's why they've made it 25 years and will be doing their thing for another 25 years or more.