OpenBSD 6.3 wasn't supposed to be released until April 15th, but everything is done (except the release song - no word on that, yet), so Theo says it's released. Usual raft of new stuff, and better ARM-64 support, which is getting closer to production-ready.
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.3. This is our 44th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @05:21PM (3 children)
The BSD's feel like what linux should be - the documentation is great, the pieces all fit together, and it feels like something designed rather than cobbled together. OpenBSD will get you from install to a useable desktop in less than 10 minutes, the defaults are sensible, and everything just works. FreeBSD has better hardware support, but I prefer the OpenBSD userland.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 03 2018, @08:14PM (2 children)
Some Linux still feels like this. You just need to use a very bare-bones distro without SystemD. I've been using and loving Void for months; it feels like FreeBSD but with Linux internals. Give it a try.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:46AM (1 child)
Some things every Linux comes out of the box with, such as nicer virtual terminals, loads of filesystems, crypto, SMP, and much better support for hardware.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:45PM
More support != better support.