Comments on: OpenBSD 5.9 released!

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 02:17:00 +0000

In reply to Christian. I guess as long as the build machines work, they will continue onwards. RIP VAX.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 02:15:55 +0000

In reply to Noth. Now that we live in the era of hardware backdoors, I guess in some ways, software crypto is really the way to go. Not to mention when it comes to any kind of data recovery, software raid is always tops!

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 02:15:11 +0000

In reply to calvin. No kidding, the luna88k is not only a dead end platform, but a dead end processor. Maybe Motorola could have fixed it, but then they got sidelined with that IBM deal. Seems all IBM did in the 1990's was sideline great tech and destroy it.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 22:13:21 +0000

Thanks for reminding me that my Zaurus SL-C3100 needs to be updated to 5.9 🙂 I hope OpenBSD’s going to support these for a while to come, since there’s no current Linux distribution which explicitly supports Zaurii anymore, at least to my knowledge. Then there’s NetBSD/zaurus, still to be tried on my SL-C700 and C750…

By: Noth

Noth — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 21:00:20 +0000

My Vaio Pro 11 can finally run OpenBSD (with softraid crypto no less) with this release, it’s brilliant to use!

By: calvin

calvin — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:10:25 +0000

I’m slightly amazed luna88k, landisk, armish and socpcc are still holding on. To a lesser extent, sgi and zaurus.