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OpenBSD 6.0 has been released. Among the changes listed in the release announcement are removal of Linux emulation, systrace, the usermount option, and the VAX port.
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A: A doberman.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @01:24PM
It is official; Surveys now confirm: The EU is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered EU when Apple CEO Tim Cook described the power grabbing supranational's investigation of its Irish tax affairs as "political bullshit". Coming close on the heels of the EU centralized tax identification number, their attempt to subsume the taxation rights of sovereign states is now clear for all to see. The EU is collapsing in complete disarray, as dead in the water as one of Merkel's drowned migrants.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the EU's future. The writing is on the wall: The EU faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the EU because the EU is dying. Things are looking very bad for the EU. As many of us are aware, the currency is becoming worthless. Negative interest rates are a tax on capital.
Let's stick to the facts and look at the numbers.
Germany has admitted over 1 million migrants, 80% are unfit for anything other than menial work. Integration, housing and welfare costs will out-weigh their net economic contribution. Sex attacks committed by migrants have reached pandemic proportions across the entire continent. Tourism numbers in France and Germany have dwindled due to terrorism. Greece is bankrupt and unable to escape the crushing debt burden imposed by its membership in the eurozone. Italian banks are insolvent. Deutsche Bank, one of Germany's largest banks has an estimated derivatives exposure equal to global GDP. The pension liabilities of the various EU institutions total over €63 billion.
All major surveys show that the EU has lost the confidence of Europe's peoples. The EU is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the EU is to survive at all it will be as a third world hellhole. The EU continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save the EU from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the EU is dead.
Fact: The EU is dying
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @02:37PM
+1 funny applied to mod responsible for -1 troll
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Friday September 02 2016, @05:54PM
Does Netcraft confirm it?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DavePolaschek on Friday September 02 2016, @02:31PM
It should be noted that this will be the last release of OpenBSD to be burned onto shiny circles. Something of a collector's piece.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday September 02 2016, @05:24PM
Sales of those were so pitifully low, and a couple of the recent releases were hozed on delivery.
They used to make money this way, but it has become a drag on revenue. Buying a permanent medium fpr something with a 6 month life-span is sort of silly.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pino P on Friday September 02 2016, @04:20PM
W^X is now strictly enforced by default; a program can only violate it if the executable is marked with PT_OPENBSD_WXNEEDED and is located on a filesystem mounted with the wxallowed mount(8) option.
A growing number of platforms enforce a W^X policy incompatible with JIT [twitter.com], forbidding unprivileged processes from requesting that a page be flipped from RW (read and write) to RX (read and execute). This reportedly includes iOS, UWP, and current video game consoles.
So the mandatory W^X announcement worried me for a moment, as it would break things like JRE, Mono, HHVM, Node, and web browsers. After a bit of searching, I discovered that OpenBSD's W^X policy does allow a JIT to flip pages from RW to RX explicitly by calling mprotect() (available in Linux [man7.org] and OpenBSD [openbsd.org]), as SpiderMonkey (the ECMAScript interpreter in Firefox) has done since version 46 [jandemooij.nl].
Does OpenBSD offer a way to block a process from flipping pages from RW to RX? Or are PT_OPENBSD_WXNEEDED and wxallowed related to that?
(Score: 1) by Deeo Kain on Friday September 02 2016, @05:52PM
A VAX port.
Isn't this a compelling selling point?
(Score: 2) by gnampff on Friday September 02 2016, @05:57PM
Read again. The VAX port is axed :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @06:39PM
Why?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by LaminatorX on Friday September 02 2016, @06:55PM
I was more surprised that it still had one. If anybody's still limping VAX hardware that's old enough to buy liquor along in 2016 I figure it's because they've got some irreplaceable legacy VMS software on it. Why nurse an old VAX along for OpenBSD when OpenBSD will run better on a 2nd hand 3year old machine? Hobby ports on niche systems is properly NetBSD's domain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @09:53PM
We sort of have a museum of old computers, including a VAX which runs NetBSD. I am curious what the difficulties are keeping a modern kernel for an obsolete CPU, given a stable abstraction layer.
Debian discontinued official Alpha support several years ago, but it appears some volunteers are doing best-effort maintenance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @11:37PM
I still us my PDP-11 to keep my house warm in the winter, you insensitive clod!
(Score: 2) by J053 on Saturday September 03 2016, @12:32AM
(Score: 2) by LaminatorX on Monday September 12 2016, @09:28PM
Congratulations. Speaking of archeo-cumputing, your handle reminds me of me very first user name: P057@nemomus
That's "P057@nemomus.bitnet" if any of you fancy Internet users need to send email back in time to mid-90's-me.
(Score: 3, Informative) by TheGratefulNet on Friday September 02 2016, @07:20PM
reminded me of the company TGV which stood for 'two guys and a vax'. good times.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday September 02 2016, @10:13PM
Where's that '+1 nostalgia value' mod when you need it?
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