OpenBSD 5.9

http://www.openbsd.org/59.html

by based2 • 10 years ago

81 26 10 years ago

jrcii• 10 years ago

Hilariously these releases are apparently accompanied by songs with choruses that make reference to "secure by default" http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song59b.mp3

To me, there's nothing quite like the feeling OpenBSD offers you of running `ps -ax` and seeing a nice, clean, minimal list of essential processes.

Esau2• 10 years ago

It is the same with NetBSD, which I love, although it annoys me that Inetd is turned on by default.

wsfull• 10 years ago

Generally, very little is "turned on by default" which sets this OS apart.

Where are you getting your rc.conf?

This looks reasonably conservative: 1 line.

/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-6/src/etc/rc.conf:

rc_configured=NO

wolf550e3• 10 years ago

why are the gcc and llvm versions so old? everything else seems recent.

brynet• 10 years ago

OpenBSD's base gcc is a fork of the last GPLv2 version, like Apple and embedded except with many local changes, e.g. gcc-local(1):

http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/gcc-local.1

There's newer versions of gcc in ports, llvm/clang was recently updated to 3.7.1, post 5.9.

wolf550e3• 10 years ago

The last GPLv2 GCC is 4.2.1. OpenBSD has 4.9.3 (they also have 4.2.1 and 3.3.6). Why not 5.3? Why was clang updated post 5.9? How long do they take to stabilize a release?

fish2000• 10 years ago

OP I believe you meant to say “q.v.” instead of “e.g.”

dijit• 10 years ago

This release brings 802.11n into the kernel, and, of course, pledge in all coreutils and chromium! :D

notaplumber• 10 years ago

All correct, except BSD doesn't use GNU coreutils.

elchief• 10 years ago

Is it just me or is OpenBSD's ldapd the only LDAP server with bcrypt password hashing built-in?

I've seen extensions/plugins for the other guys, but not built-in

Also, nice to see pledge in the smtp server and mutt, and ChaCha20 in IPSEC

krylon2• 10 years ago

Huh, I was not even aware OpenBSD had an LDAP server in the base system. ... Apparently, the Internet tells me just now, they have had it for a while now. Who would have known?

This makes me think of a comment I read around the time of the 5.8 release to the effect that with any other project this would reek of not-invented-here syndrome, except that the OpenBSD people have such a superb track record for getting things right. ;-)

krylon2• 10 years ago

Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining - but why is this news (again)? 5.9 came out, what, two weeks ago.

On the other hand, who doesn't love OpenBSD news.

So today allow me to point out that since I am a sysadmin at a mostly-Windows shop, I really like how modest OpenBSD's hardware requirements are. If you keep the workload appropriately modest, it can run on 128MB of RAM (probably a lot less, I did not try that hard) on a hard disk that is smaller than Windows' installation DVD and perform useful work. Obviously, the comparison is not without problems, but it comes in handy to explain to people why in some ways I am astonished that you need a dual-core CPU with 8GB of RAM just to run Outlook, Excel and a remote desktop session.

gh02t• 10 years ago

Yeah I run OpenBSD on an absolutely ancient Atom-based Dell netbook as a beater machine to carry around when I need a portable terminal. With a minimal wm it's surprisingly usable on a machine that was considered underpowered even when it was new, though Firefox chugs and stutters a bit.

OpenBSD 5.9

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