Bitrig, a fork of OpenBSD, has surfaced. It aims to be less conservative than OpenBSD by being less loose with new features and only supporting modern architectures. Bitrig has also converted over to using LLVM's clang rather than GNU gcc for it's toolchain/compiler. A roadmap for Bitrig is also available.
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Member since:2008-06-03
Been studying the sources and visited their IRC.
It's the same Marco Peereboom.
https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/Main_Page
Pleasantly surprised their LLVM/Clang support is already so complete.
Member since:2008-02-26
Mm, I have mixed feelings about this...
While the people working on this seem to be more competent and sane than the people behind MirOS or AerieBSD, the kind of fork and all the name whoring means we won't see any more contributions from them to OpenBSD and this is sad.
I for one rely on scrotwm and xxxterm. In prespective, all the silly name changing was likely in preparation for this project. The real names made it hard to sell a product.
I wish them luck. On one hand, the OpenBSD codebase is very good, on the other, the "embedded" support will require some pretty big structural changes if it has to compete with real embedded OSes. At this point it can't even stand a fight with the massive non-RT Linux market. And what will the PHBs think of security when they learn they need to upgrade to a smartphone processor to get the same performance they had with an SH4.
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Reading the FAQ, I wonder if something as simple as a VAX backend for LLVM could have avoided this fracture.
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2009-06-20
I do hope they are competent. A system is only as secure as its least secure component (like a chain is only as strong as its weakest link), so it would very easy to degrade OpenBSD's main (and almost only - sorry) selling point.