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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 17 2017, @12:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the krackattack-free dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow7568

OpenBSD is a lightweight operating system designed with code correctness and security in mind. The project has released OpenBSD 6.2 which features many new drivers, particularly for the ARM architecture, and network packet handling performance improvements. Some key features have been added to the system installer too, including checking for security updates on the system's first boot: "Installer improvements: The installer now uses the Allotment Routing Table (ART). A unique kernel is now created by the installer to boot from after install/upgrade. On release installs of architectures supported by syspatch, "syspatch -c" is now added to rc.firsttime. Backwards compatibility code to support the 'rtsol' keyword in hostname.if(5) has been removed. The install.site and upgrade.site scripts are now executed at the end of the install/upgrade process. More detailed information is shown to identify disks. The IPv6 default router selection has been fixed. On the amd64 platform, AES-NI is used if present."

Further information on OpenBSD 6.2 can be found in the project's release notes. Download (pkglist): amd64/install62.iso (330MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install62.iso (320MB, SHA256, signature)

Source: https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09986


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @01:33PM (15 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @01:33PM (#583453)

    "Correctness", "Security", "Extensible", "Modular", "Lightweight".

    These are jack-off words among programmers, but they are almost never representative of reality.

    How does OpenBSD fair?

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:13PM (5 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:13PM (#583468) Journal

    Why don't you have a look for yourself?

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:39PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:39PM (#583476)

      I left my 20s a long time ago, and don't have time to dick around yet again with someone else's trash.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:33PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:33PM (#583499)

        You've gotten bitter as you have grown old. Why do you insist on spreading the bitterness?

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:58PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:58PM (#583510)

          At least, that's what I suspect; I don't really know why.

          The thing is, after years of trying to spread my bitterness, I've not heard one argument to convince me that my bitterness is unwarranted. I really do believe that the unbittered are either naive or delusional.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @05:23PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @05:23PM (#583550)

            It is how you approach the world. There is a wide range of experience to be had, focusing on the fuckups too much often makes life more miserable. Acknowledge, move on, or at least do something about it instead of just getting bitter.

            All advice I'm not very great at myself.

            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @05:29PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @05:29PM (#583554)

              The reason it remains miserable is that people refuse to acknowledge that life is miserable.

              You have to stand with thousands of other people, hand over heart, listening to the same damn national hymn for the billionth time, and pretend that this is all good and proper. How can things ever get better when nobody is allowed to acknowledge just how terrible it all is?

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:37PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:37PM (#583475) Journal

    > How does OpenBSD fair?

    Fairly well.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by jpmahala on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:44PM (1 child)

      by jpmahala (6065) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:44PM (#583481)
      > How does OpenBSD fair?

      Farely well.

      FTFY :)

      • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:28AM

        by frojack (1554) on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:28AM (#583792) Journal

        Fare thee well.

        I'm otta here.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:45PM (5 children)

    by Wootery (2341) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:45PM (#583482)

    I'd have gone with "Modular, Extensible, Lightweight, Correct, Secure", or MELCS. Far more catchy.

    Unrelated question of my own: does OpenJDK run on OpenBSD these days? Seems a reasonable litmus test for serious Unices.

    • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:55PM (1 child)

      by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:55PM (#583487)

      Yes. [reddit.com]

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      • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:09PM

        by Wootery (2341) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:09PM (#583492)

        Good stuff, thanks.

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:51PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:51PM (#583506)

      Seems a reasonable litmus test for serious Unices.

      And shitty programmers.

      • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday October 17 2017, @07:55PM

        by Wootery (2341) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @07:55PM (#583625)

        Language fanboyism. From an AC. Cute.

    • (Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday October 17 2017, @04:00PM

      by edIII (791) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @04:00PM (#583513)

      Aside from Reddit, I use it every single day in OpenBSD 6.1.

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