OpenBSD 6.0 Is Out With Better ARM Support, More SMP Fun, Dropped Linux Emulation

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenBSD 6.0 Is Out With Better ARM Support, More SMP Fun, Dropped Linux Emulation

Kicking off September the OpenBSD developers announced the release of OpenBSD 6.0...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBSD-6.0-Released

[starshipeleven]

Ah, the vaxen. Good memories, good memories.

[kaidenshi]

I'll have to give it a spin on the desktop to see how much the scheduler has improved, though as with every OpenBSD release I expect it to be incremental, not monumental. Still, any improvement is welcomed!

[Cthulhux]

1. Remove Linux support.
2. ???
3. Profit!

[boxie]

1. Remove Linux support.
2. ???
3. Profit!

As long as you can spin up a VM for you must have Linux stuff...

[Cthulhux]

I don't have any must-have Linux stuff.

[kpedersen]

To be honest, the very basic Linux support OpenBSD did had was to hack around terrible ideas like Flash and other closed-source software. As predicted many years ago that has pretty much all died now so we have no use for the Linux layer.

Simples

[kpedersen]

s/had/have

(I can't seem to edit posts on these weird a$$ forums )

[pal666]

As long as you can spin up a VM for you must have Linux stuff...

it's not like there is any must have openbsd stuff to begin with

[microcode]

it's not like there is any must have openbsd stuff to begin with

Not like anyone likes pf, pledge, or a system which mostly works with only W^X pages...