OpenBSD 8.0

 (openbsd.org)

84 points | by privong 2 hours ago

5 comments

  • MycroftJones 1 minute ago
    When I read the Changelog I had to check if it was April Fools day. Is this a real OpenBSD release? Feels early. Also, many of those changes don't sound like real OpenBSD changes.
  • k310 1 hour ago
    I am not on board with the graphic, whatever the heck it is.

    https://www.openbsd.org/images/blowfishonbike-s.gif

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    • rektlessness 1 hour ago
      Forget the artwork and check out the accompanying song and lyrics for the new release. I think it's one of the funnier ones so far. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80
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      • Bankq 33 minutes ago
        “Back in my day we didn't have artificial intelligence, we had real stupidity - and we liked it.”
    • sippingabonedry 22 minutes ago
      Before they were anti-AI edgelords, they were anti-VM edgelords.

      Now they ship their own hypervisor in the base system.

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      • bentley 10 minutes ago
        I don’t think the theme is “anti‐AI.” I think what it’s trying to express is something along the lines of “take responsibility for your code,” where one’s code is the code one unleashes upon the world.

        But that’s just my interpretation.

    • somat 1 hour ago
      I suspect it is social commentary on the dangers of letting the machine do all your thinking for you.
    • Cordiali 13 minutes ago
      It's a reference to your basic 'Baton Roue' meme.

      I assume it's meant to represent the perspective of pro-AI people, but it's ambiguous.

    • exhilaration 31 minutes ago
      I would just like to say that the Simpsons Already Did It: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Blinky
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      • bentley 22 minutes ago
        Wow, that’s a weird coincidence.
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        • GeorgeWBasic 0 minutes ago
          It's not a coincidence. The song is called "The Simps on AI". They're definitely referencing Blinky.
    • jamal-kumar 23 minutes ago
      Puffy's always looked kind of weird. I remember when they gave the damn fish human lips a few times and it always put me off
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    • Guestmodinfo 1 hour ago
      I really like OpenBSD. I have used it for years. I feel the folks there are very helpful and awesome but I also do not like that graphic.
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      • somat 44 minutes ago
        You are not supposed to, it is intended to represent(and probably is) a machine generated image.

        I have not really formalized my thoughts on the matter, but it boils down to. It feels great to get the machine to generate a thing for you but it feels terrible to receive a thing from somebody that is machine generated.

        The worse part is the paranoia, Now I am seeing "tells" of machine generated content, and it may or may not be. But I have already lost interest.

        The real irony would be that it is a hand drawn image carefully animated to feel machine generated.

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        • sroerick 41 minutes ago
          Credit is given to yvaneht nioj and clanker
      • samtheprogram 50 minutes ago
        To be fair, I'm reading it as satire of AI. So not liking it is kind of the point.
      • jart 25 minutes ago
        They're just showing humility. Give them a break.
      • GalaxyNova 29 minutes ago
        that's the point
    • IncRnd 12 minutes ago
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    • imwally 1 hour ago
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    • colesantiago 25 minutes ago
      And so it begins.

      SlopenBSD.

      Disappointing OpenBSD is and all of software is descending into slop.

      Don't care if it is satire or not.

  • gucci-on-fleek 17 minutes ago
    Does the version number going from v7.X->v8.0 mean that this is a larger update than v7.8->v7.9, or does the numbering just automatically roll over to the next major version when it reaches vX.9?
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    • synack 9 minutes ago
      No, the major number has no special significance to OpenBSD. 8.0 is just what comes after 7.9.
    • himata4113 16 minutes ago
      as linus torvalds puts it: big numbers confuse me, so the next kernel version will be 7.0
  • zdw 1 hour ago
    In recent past releases there was a noticeable improvement to SMP related networking bits.

    Does anyone have benchmarks between 8.0 and previous releases in that department?

  • diskinsight 41 minutes ago
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