I'm happy they haven't given up on release songs altogether. I can only imagine how much contributor time it takes to make them, but they are a wonderful bit of programmer culture.
As an occasional OpenBSD user since the early-ish days in the late 90s, this makes me feel old.
Congratulations on the release and for staying true to your vision all these years. OpenBSD still feels like an old friend from the moment I see that blue color on my console. Here’s to 25 more.
I still kind of miss the CD releases. I bought every release from 2.3 to somewhere in the 4.x series, and had them all in a closet until a few years ago. Unfortunately I got rid of them in a fit of cleaning.
I regret it now. Since then I’ve gotten back into OpenBSD as an occasional user on a random server here and there, and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6. I bought it specifically for OpenBSD and it works great.
Those old CD sets were cool. Many included extra art work, song lyrics, install instructions and would boot and install for several architectures.
These days I mostly just run current snapshots, so a release has little impact for me personally. But it’s always fun to see OpenBSD still moving forward after 25 years.
> Added support for set -o pipefail to ksh(1), potentially
helping error checking.
I thought that that was a POSIX feature, and it was weird of
OpenBSD's ksh to not have it, but apparently "-o pipefail" is
not in POSIX[1]. Interesting!
When it was added to current, I've even sysupgraded to snapshot just to test it. The setup is very straightforward, clean and easy, just like OBSD in general
Yup! Pretty exciting indeed. Now OpenBSD has first class support for WireGuard, out of the box. And all the usual tools such as wg(8) and wg-quick(8) work too.
Gnome and KDE are in the ports tree and kept very up to date. Everything there basically works. Most supported hardware just works out of the box with very little tinkering.
Of course there is less hardware supported than Linux and support can lag a bit, since there are few people writing drivers. But modern Thinkpads work quite well.
All that said, I have found Gnome to feel a little slow on OpenBSD compared to running on on the same hardware on Linux. So on OpenBSD I mostly use dwm, which feels super fast.
Generally most everything you want can be found in the ports tree.
That depends on what you do to be honest. Web, email, programming, spreedsheets, wordprocessing have been fine for over a decade. Heavy 3D stuff, not my first, second or third choice.
Time flies. I still remember starting with OpenBSD in early noughties, I think 3.5 and 3.6 in 2004, which seemed like a mature and exciting project at that time already; fast-forward 2020, and it's amazing how far we've come. Great to have been part of it, another 25 years now!
I have been using OpenBSD the past few months/weeks on less common architectures (loongson and macppc). It’s taught me a lot and will enjoy updating to the new release!
OpenBSD is a great project. The OpenBSD team isn't obsessed with pleasing everyone or getting mass adoption. They just focus on building a great OS for folks who appreciate that sort of thing. They know what they're about and that's why they've made it 25 years and will be doing their thing for another 25 years or more.
[+] [-] brynet|5 years ago|reply
https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#68
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[+] [-] peatmoss|5 years ago|reply
Congratulations on the release and for staying true to your vision all these years. OpenBSD still feels like an old friend from the moment I see that blue color on my console. Here’s to 25 more.
[+] [-] kelp|5 years ago|reply
I regret it now. Since then I’ve gotten back into OpenBSD as an occasional user on a random server here and there, and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6. I bought it specifically for OpenBSD and it works great.
Those old CD sets were cool. Many included extra art work, song lyrics, install instructions and would boot and install for several architectures.
These days I mostly just run current snapshots, so a release has little impact for me personally. But it’s always fun to see OpenBSD still moving forward after 25 years.
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[+] [-] ainar-g|5 years ago|reply
I thought that that was a POSIX feature, and it was weird of OpenBSD's ksh to not have it, but apparently "-o pipefail" is not in POSIX[1]. Interesting!
Either way, congratulations to the OpenBSD team!
[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
[+] [-] xmichael99|5 years ago|reply
The guy who founded and does a fair bit of the work. Interesting skim.
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[+] [-] kelp|5 years ago|reply
Of course there is less hardware supported than Linux and support can lag a bit, since there are few people writing drivers. But modern Thinkpads work quite well.
All that said, I have found Gnome to feel a little slow on OpenBSD compared to running on on the same hardware on Linux. So on OpenBSD I mostly use dwm, which feels super fast.
Generally most everything you want can be found in the ports tree.
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[+] [-] Panino|5 years ago|reply
2020 sucks and I feel so fortunate to WFH managing things that run on OpenBSD. If you're doing alright, please consider donating:
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
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