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OpenBSD Hackathon Underway 67

Posted by timothy from the so-don't-even-ask dept.
Triumph The Insult C writes "Aside from some stealth developers, the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, held in Calgary, is underway, according to Theo. They've been doing some recent work on SMP, and have some impressive AMD SMP gear there that they've got to hack around with. A few years ago, it was PF. Who knows what they'll come up with this time that knocks our socks off."
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  • PF, now... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 21, 2004 @07:08PM (#9490100)
    If history repeats itself, it'd be an Apache clone.

    • Re:PF, now... (Score:4, Interesting)

      by lcde ( 575627 ) on Tuesday June 22, 2004 @12:04PM (#9496550) Homepage
      There has been a lot of babbling on the mailing list. Everyone is against it. They are sticking with 1.3.39 (i think) with all of their security fixes. There will only be updates for security reasons. To quote the general thoughts of the developers: "If you don't like it, don't bitch at us; Bitch at Apache"

      Anyway, nothing is stopping you from running 2.x or any other apache. It just won't be supported.

      I think that Carp/pfsync is more important than apache. Plus now there is some SMP to work with.

      Just my 2 cents.
      • A pretty big minority said "What about thttpd?"? The official word is that the default will not be changed.

        Of course, if you want to install it out of ports...

      • There has been a lot of babbling on the mailing list. Everyone is against it. They are sticking with 1.3.39 (i think) with all of their security fixes. There will only be updates for security reasons. To quote the general thoughts of the developers: "If you don't like it, don't bitch at us; Bitch at Apache"

        Or better yet, screw the default and install what -you- want.

        • Re:PF, now... (Score:3, Interesting)

          by lcde ( 575627 )
          Or better yet, screw the default and install what -you- want.

          That's fine. The whole point of free software is the freedom to do what you want. Make sure you know what you are doing though and don't expect help if you are on the mailing list saying:

          "I compiled gcc 3.2 and apache 2.0..."

          The reason I like bsd and why I feel it is so stable. It is the fact that the 'default' base system contains a group of tightly knit programs that have been proven to be secure and stable. Once you start adding programs th

  • it's scary (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ArbitraryConstant ( 763964 ) on Monday June 21, 2004 @07:59PM (#9490422) Homepage
    These hackathons always scare me a bit. Major functionality has a habbit of going from non-existant to solid before it's over.
  • With all the work that has been done on SMP, hopefully they'll get some good work done on it. miklas@ has done some wonderful work, while I may not agree with the big kernel lock, it's a start.

    Good luck to those reading /. instead of hacking SMP up there :-p

  • FreeBSD is alive and kicking. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by SphericalCrusher ( 739397 ) on Thursday June 24, 2004 @09:18PM (#9524548) Journal
    Christ. I know this post is offtopic also, but what is the deal and all of these people bashing FreeBSD. I mean... if it's actually dead, new updates wouldn't be coming out, would they? You do know that FreeBSD 4.10 was released recently, don't you? I'm going to be throwing together a computer this summer just for installing FreeBSD on. As long as software has some users and continues to be updated, it's not dead. Hell, Windows 95 isn't even dead yet... it may not be updated any more, but a lot of people still use it.
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  • Is some more info on what SMP [wikipedia.org](Symmetric multiprocessing)actually is and what it's advantages and drawbacks are.

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