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OpenBSD 5.0 Released

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Re: OpenBSD 5.0 Released

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

What was the language of the previous version?

http://www.openbsd.org/plus50.html

> Switched from the old shell script /etc/security to the new Perl script security(8).

Re: OpenBSD 5.0 Released

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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.

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