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mghackerlady
Sweet, I was just wondering when 7.9 would release. And with a song! We haven't gotten one of those in a while iirc
kvuj
A song released with it too! So much care for OpenBSD.
alex1138
BSDs are interesting projects. As I understand it there's a broad difference of them all doing things reasonably well but a) Free is general-purpose, b) Net is especially portable/many architecture and Open is security focused
clbrmbr
Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose?

I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).

nelsonic
With all the security issues constantly being uncovered in other Operating Systems - which will only accelerate with Ai - it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD. Their decades-long security-focus is second to none. We have fully converted from Ubuntu/Debian to OpenBSD. No looking back.
ska80
I wish OpenBSD supported Bluetooth. Unfortunately, its absence is a deal breaker for me. I did use OpenBSD on the desktop it was great.
Decabytes
How do the various BSDs run on framework laptops?
nubg
ang benchmarks against state of the art?
kriro
I used it a bit, had it installed for a while on a G4 PowerBook (must have been early-ish 2000s). I like the no-nonsense attitude towards blobs, security focus. Overall the experience was very good. The bit of code I read was also written nicely. I'll always endorse it and should really install it somewhere again in the near future.

This is also the 60th release. Congrats team.

unethical_ban
Neat that they're working on Intel's p/e/l core support. I was just comparing Linux and windows support history the other day.
binkHN
While I daily Linux on my workstation, OpenBSD is my favorite OS, by far, and I use it wherever it makes sense for me.
sunshine-o
I would really love to adopt OpenBSD but the one thing I can't deal with is the absence of journalized filesystem.

Just the idea not to be able to recover after a power cut and work is hard to accept to be honest.

I have been recently considering running it on a minimal Alpine ZFS host but I am not sure how much I can optimize the display experience since I do not think OpenBSD support QXL/SPICE.

I would be curious if someone found a way...

Dyympps
i use it and its secure
efxhoy
> Enabled IPv6 autoconf (SLAAC) by default.

Sweet! I’m just about to replace pfsense with openbsd on my router. Smoothly setting up ipv6 is a bit of a headscratcher atm, mainly because i’ve never had to understand it before.

Tepix
I wonder why they didn‘t spend 20 minutes to make that web page work better with smartphones.
accrual
Congrats on another successful release, OpenBSD team! Happy user since the 4.x days.
fmajid
They've made major progress on the WiFi front in this release, finally getting experimental WiFi 6 support.
upofadown
The big news for some of us is that Exim has been dropped from ports. Here is a good article about transitioning from Exim to OpenSMTPD:

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/time_for_opensmtpd.html

I tried using OpenSMTPD a long time ago, shortly after it came out, but things were not stable enough. I guess it is time to give it another go...

blackhaz
Sorry for the off-topic, but I wish our FreeBSD camp could roll back a little from this faux-corporate glass ball without soul and a font from the early 90s spaceship toy box, to Beastie and a stylish serif. What I was trying to say - I'm in envy. OpenBSD artwork is absolutely amazing!
somat
Release Engineering. Noun. See Also OpenBSD

OpenBSD does a lot of things well, definitely punches above their weight. One underrated feature is their approach to releasing. No "When it's done" here. Like clockwork twice a year, they slow down, clean the shop, get their experiments in order and cook a release, a stable point in time. More projects could learn a thing or two from this.