https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12607
OpenBSD is a security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.8, the latest of the regular biannual updates of the project's free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. This version adds support for Raspberry Pi 5, among many other changes:
"We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 7.8. This is our 59th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of thirty years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 7.8 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: added support for Raspberry Pi 5 (with console on serial port); implement acpicpu(4) for arm64; on Apple variants, enter DDB when exuart(4) detects a BREAK; on arm64 and riscv64, avoid multiple threads of a process continuously faulting on a single page when pmap_enter(9) is asked to enter a mapping that already exists; make apm and hw.cpuspeed work on Snapdragon X Elite machines; fix processing of GPIO events for pin numbers less than 256 with an _EVT method, fixes power button on various ThinkPads with AMD CPUs...."
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Friday October 24, @04:26AM
It's not official 'til Netcraft confirms it.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by fen on Friday October 24, @05:43AM (14 children)
Ego is a scourge. Let's start a new OS without ego. We can start by using a continuous time scale without pesky daylight savings or leap seconds.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by quietus on Friday October 24, @08:03AM (8 children)
As to the title of your comment, ego: none, actually. It is one of the wonders of humanity that a bunch of people can come together, put in hard work, and than offer the end result to everybody who wants to, for free, without even having to say a thank you. I do admit it is a pain in the ass for those people who claim greed is the main driver of progress; especially as this particular end result is far better in terms of security, stability and ease of use than any commercial runner-up.
(Score: 1) by fen on Friday October 24, @06:18PM (7 children)
I point you to https://www.elephantinthebrain.com. [www.elephantinthebrain.com] Ego is behind everything.
(Score: 1) by fen on Friday October 24, @06:19PM (5 children)
Didn't like the dot at the end. Try https://www.elephantinthebrain.com [elephantinthebrain.com] .
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by fen on Friday October 24, @06:21PM (4 children)
If any admins are reading this, your code should be able to figure out https://apple.com. [apple.com.] (with a period). It's extracting the correct url, but adding the period in the actual link. Maybe I can fix it?
(Score: 1) by fen on Friday October 24, @06:22PM
ah and then it extracted the wrong URL. Your code is fubar.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday October 24, @06:47PM (2 children)
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 1) by fen on Friday October 24, @07:01PM (1 child)
That one worked. It's having problems with a period at the end. This is the link to https://apple.com. [apple.com.] That's a period.
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Friday October 24, @07:23PM
OK, thanks, but in the great scheme of things that is quite a way down the list. I will note it though.
The editors are only really looking at TFS, and the Software team (kolie!) is a bit busy with other issues at the moment. If you are able to suggest a patch for Rehash it would be very useful but, if not, he will get to it eventually.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by quietus on Saturday October 25, @02:42PM
From the Overview:
Pseudo-scientific babble, fired by the general misunderstanding of "nature, red in tooth and claw". Nature is not an environment where egoists survive long: look outside your window -- unless you've got some members of the Ericaceae outside, about a hundred percent of what you see is a cooperation. What biology learns instead is that nature is built on cooperation [wikipedia.org], and that the whole thing is a giant revenge-of-the-nerds scenario.
In this particular case, you might be better off reading an introduction to ethology [nih.gov] instead.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 24, @10:57AM (1 child)
> without pesky daylight savings or leap seconds
WTF?
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Friday October 24, @12:27PM
Metric time?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mmcmonster on Friday October 24, @02:51PM (1 child)
How do you do time without leap seconds? Probably TAI time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time [wikipedia.org]
The problem with TAI time is it drifts away from "real" time based on the slowing of the Earth.
Time is hard. Thanks goes to all the people in the background that keep time synced up and appear "linear" to us casual users of computers.
ObXKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/ [xkcd.com]
(Score: 2) by mmcmonster on Friday October 24, @02:55PM
And I forgot a link to the wiki on the timezone database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by acid andy on Friday October 24, @04:17PM
Thanks to Farcebook they are already planning to scrap leap seconds [soylentnews.org] from UTC.
Those of us who don't like it can switch to UT1 [nist.gov]
But what do leap seconds have to do with ego, or OpenBSD?
"rancid randy has a dialogue with herself[...] Somebody help him!" -- Anonymous Coward.
(Score: 2) by corey on Saturday October 25, @12:26AM (1 child)
I keep wanting to switch my gateway server over from FreeBSD to OpenBSD for the apparent extra security (maybe not much difference). But FreeBSD has been great to work with, and I’ve got shutting customised and set up from 15 years of continuous use. I do like the pufferfish logo more than the Beastie.
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Saturday October 25, @03:08AM
I used it for some years for a startup VPS, and loved the experience. Simple an to the point, the documentation holds your hand nicely.