OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs

OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.6-Released

[uid313]

I wish OpenBSD would improve OpenSSH to make it more friendly, when I type --version it doesn't work, I cannot check version, when I type --help it doesn't work. This OpenSSH is not user-friendly.

[sophisticles]

Pretty soon OpenBSD will have better hardware support than Linux.

[kylew77]

Another great release, and love the art work this release too. It invokes feelings of the better multicore support. Suspend to idle is going to be a great feature.

[jaypatelani]

I wish OpenBSD would improve OpenSSH to make it more friendly, when I type --version it doesn't work, I cannot check version, when I type --help it doesn't work. This OpenSSH is not user-friendly.

#ssh -V

https://man.openbsd.org/ssh

[mobadboy]

since opnbsd only runs on a real devices, my ideal workflow is something like this:

host machine: linux kvm host / xen dom0. not connected to the internet, but has some virtual networks configured w/o a host having an ip address. except one network, the control backplane, for which the host has an ip address. but it does not have any open ports. this is important.
router vm: wan is connected to internet, and lan->wan is routed through tor. opnsense is good here, but authentic pfsense also makes sense.
browsing vm: opnbsd vm. connected to lan. and connected to the control backplane.

then the host establishes an x-forwarded session with the opnbsd vm to finally display a browser on the host, connected to internet behind a vpn. opnbsd provides excellent security guarantees (only XX remote holes in YY), while linux provides excellent graphics support and overall has at least some hardware support, unlike opnbsd. the sad thing though is that nobody from opnbsd at least wants to create a basic graphics forwarding layer which unfortunately means that firefox is software-rendered, so watching the 4k nature documentaries just isnt possible in this configuration, and i need at least 1 hour per day of nature documentaries.

maybe some day they will care about users.

[Rallos Zek]

Pretty soon OpenBSD will have better hardware support than Linux.

Pretty soon my band which only plays in the garage will get our big break and become the one biggest rock bands in the world!

We all can dream of the impossible.

[Steffo]

so watching the 4k nature documentaries just isnt possible in this configuration, and i need at least 1 hour per day of nature documentaries.

Haha, that is propably the sweatest comment of the year. 😄

[uid313]

#ssh -V
https://man.openbsd.org/ssh

Thanks!

This was very user-unfriendly! I had expected --version to work. They should make ssh work more as expected in a more standardized and common way like other programs.

[uid313]

So no functioning brain as usual.

Yeah, I am not so smart as you so for me it is important that software is easy to use and that it follows common usability patterns, design guidelines and conventions.