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OpenBSD 5.7 Released

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If I wanted to buy the sweetest laptop available that works well with OpenBSD 5.7, what would I buy?

Depends what specs you want, but a ThinkPad X240 would be well supported.

Interesting. I want a "developer-class" laptop. Well-built, moderately fast, reliable. The reviews on Amazon for that X240 complain about a crappy trackpad. Wonder if there are other good options.

It's not that bad.

> It's not that bad.

As someone used to the trackpoint on an X201, yes, it is practically unusable.

The trackpad on this series is not the greatest - I'm finding precision not very good. (X230 running Xubuntu 14.04.) There's probably some setting to make it less annoying.

Probably not anything new from Asus. I just recently purchased one, and it's pure UEFI. The newest models have begun removing the options to enable "legacy mode", so you can't run legacy operating systems anymore.

This will probably become more and more common, and after the next couple years it will be extremely hard to find any good laptop that would run openBSD.

It's so weird to see one of my programs on the packages FTP. Feels pretty awesome!

Out of curiosity, which one?

About time!

Just kidding. It is impressive how the OpenBSD developers manage to stick to their release schedule.

It's interesting that OpenBSd's xhci driver is new, while Linux has had an xhci driver for several years...

Not really. Intel pays people to write drivers for linux.

OpenBSD is basically entirely volunteers.

OpenBSD tends to re-engineer things rather than use reference implementations - for example, their ACPI (power management) interface is a ground up implementation, whereas most others are simply copies of Intel's code: http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/events/131.en.html

Simply one of the finest and most reliable systems to date. Kudos.

Excellent! Congrats to the team.

Glad to see postgres 9.4 in packages, and more improvements to libressl.

Anybody got an opinion on a decent openbsd vps?

https://arpnetworks.com/

I've been with them about five years now. No real issues during this time.

It is possible to install OpenBSD on vultr.com by using the custom ISO procedure. I got one last month, and it works great. You can also try using the SSDVPS coupon code to gain $20 of credit (it worked last month, but I can't seem to find if it's still active).

Any reason for the removal of loadable kernel modules?

LKM(4) support had mostly been only "compile tested" for years. Practically nothing used it, and at the time of it's removal the ports tree contained a single module.. a firmware flasher for some old Dell servers.

OpenBSD also makes it pretty easy to compile drivers into a custom kernel:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq//faq5.html#Why

And to configure an already compiled kernel with UKC:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq//faq5.html#BootConfig

So most of the time there's little need for kernel modules.

How about a reason for nginx removal?

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9202522

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