OpenBSD has marked its 25th birthday with a brand new release – OpenBSD 6.8. One of the major new features is support for 64bit PowerPC processors – POWER8 and POWER9 specifically, and the Raptor Computing Systems Talos II and Blackbird platforms in particular.
Hurrah!
The improved RK3399 support is fantastic. That SoC is in the Pinebook Pro and many ChromeOS laptops and tablets, as well as the usual array of embedded boards.
Awesome! I’ve been eyeing a RockPro64, and now I have less reservations.
I’ve been playing around with the snapshots on spare hardware over the past month and it has been quite an impressive leap forward in performance and user-friendliness. I’m about to install the 6.8 release onto a Dell T110 I converted into a workstation specifically with OpenBSD in mind, and I look forward to “living in it” for the next few weeks to get acquainted with all the new stuff.