Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd May 2012 21:26 UTC, submitted by PhilJ
Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.1. The OpenBSD 5.1 release page has a detailed list of all changes and improvements. As always, I would love for someone to write proper items about OpenBSD releases - it's outside my interests and cursory glances don't do it justice.
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don't throw so much hw at OpenBSD...
by sergio on Fri 4th May 2012 03:34
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Throw better hardware at it - that's what the "big guys" with the pockets full of money typically do. :-)
I love OpenBSD and its rock solid simplicity but It's not an ideal OS for big servers.
IMHO OpenBSD is perfect for embedded solutions, firewalls, log servers and other small footprint and very focused tasks (running on small hardware or VMs).
For bigger generalistic projects FreeBSD and GNU/Linux are better options.
RE: don't throw so much hw at OpenBSD...
by dbolgheroni on Fri 4th May 2012 14:14
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/07/13 11:40 UTC
This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/04/13 12:45 UTC
Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
Linked by nfeske on 05/31/13 10:12 UTC
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/29/13 16:59 UTC
At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!More Features »
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I think you might be trapped into an understanding problem here. Allow me to explain:
OpenBSD organizes "additional software" by its ports collection (similar to what the other BSDs do). There is "the OS" (which is OpenBSD) and there is "additional applications". Those are managed by maintainers and typically ported over from Linux land. Especially in GUI applications you can see that they are quite Linux-centric and may work better "over there". The internationalisation and localisation is a workiing field for the original developers and port maintainers, not the OpenBSD "OS team". The OS can only provide "highest level" selection mechanisms, typically by environmental variables and their control mechanisms. Just to mention a few: There is $LANG, and there are $LC_* for a fine-grained control (LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LC_COLLATE or LC_TIME, just to name a few) which control both language and character set, whereas $LANG only controls language and has a "strange priority relationship" to the other ones.
See the FAQ 10.20 "Character sets and localization":
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#locales
More details can be found in the login.conf manpage:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=login.conf&sektion=5
Much more details about the language control variables (even though taken from FreeBSD):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=environ&sektion=7
Additional info:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/envvar.html
It's up to the GUI programs to properly honor the environmental settings (and not overriding them with their own defaults), and it's up to their developers to implement the translation texts properly.
Believe me - I know enough about the problem of bad, missing and partial translation. In Germany, english error messages and the ability not to select "Deutsch" at the very first step of an OS installation is the main reason to drop powerful and versatile systems like OpenBSD. Note that this also covers Linux! In the past, I always experienced Gnome to have a better translation than KDE, for example. But that has nothing to do with the actual OS they're running on. People tend to forget this fact.
I'm using english-only Unix and Linux systems myself (primarily FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris), as I prefer the clear english texts over the sloppy, partially wrong and ugly-looking german translations. The only exception I'm willing to admit is OpenOffice. :-)
You have just learned that those are not developed by the OpenBSD team. :-)
OpenBSD forces coders to be more careful than other Unix or Linux systems may do. Just as an example, if cc -Wall shows anything, the program should be worked on until no more warnings appear. Especially memory management is (due to security reasons) seen as an important aspect. Sloppy coding, compile warnings and runtime messages sadly seem to be typical. They appear more often on systems software is ported to (e. g. more often on OpenBSD than on native Linux).
Throw better hardware at it - that's what the "big guys" with the pockets full of money typically do. :-)