OpenBSD 7.7 release artwork by Tomáš Rodr.<p><a href="https://www.openbsd.org/images/LifeOfAFish.png" rel="nofollow">https://www.openbsd.org/images/LifeOfAFish.png</a><p><a href="https://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy77.gif" rel="nofollow">https://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy77.gif</a><p>t-shirts, hoodies, stickers on openbsdstore.com
Theo did a talk back in 2009 on the OpenBSD release process[0], and how they manage to keep releasing on schedule.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_engineering/" rel="nofollow">https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_engine...</a>
Congrats on another release, OpenBSD team!<p>I'm happily using OpenBSD as my core router, my Minecraft server, a laptop OS, and on my retro PCs. Currently updating my Raspberry Pi 4 to 7.7 as well.
Anecdata regarding my RPi 4:<p>* On 7.5 the built-in `bwmf0` was not detected<p>* On 7.6 `bwmf0` was detected and works great, even in AP mode. However, my latest Node project core dumped when running `npm install` and nothing I tried got it working (short of recompiling Node)<p>* On 7.7 (today's release) `npm install` is working perfect<p>Not worth an entire blog post, but just goes to show improvements in OpenBSD over time on the Pi 4 :)
Wondering how it compares to FreeBSD in terms of performance. OpenBSD used to be slower but in the past 3-4 years there were bunch of optimisations landed.<p>I guess I will have to wait for another phoronix benchmarks.
A note to myself for future upgrades, from the upgrade guide:<p><i>• Check available disk space in /usr. Verify that the /usr partition has a size of at least 1.1G. With less space the upgrade may fail and you should consider reinstalling the system instead.</i><p>When this says "available disk space," it means "total" disk space of the /usr partition, not "free" space. I had less than 1.1GB of unused free space on /usr and had to verify that that was fine before proceeding.
Hmm, been a while since they had a release song.<p><a href="https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html</a>