LinuxQuestions.org
Latest LQ Deal: Latest LQ Deals
Go Back   LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Other *NIX Forums > *BSD
User Name
Password
*BSD This forum is for the discussion of all BSD variants.
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.

Notices


Reply
  Search this Thread
Old 05-01-2014, 04:09 PM   #1
JWJones
Senior Member
 
Registered: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,444

Rep: Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709
OpenBSD 5.5 released today


http://www.openbsd.org/55.html

Some highlights:

GNOME 3.10.2
KDE 3.5.10
KDE 4.11.5
Xfce 4.10
MySQL 5.1.73
PostgreSQL 9.3.2
Postfix 2.11.0
OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.38
Mozilla Firefox 24.3 and 26.0
Mozilla Thunderbird 24.3.0
GHC 7.6.3
LibreOffice 4.1.4.2
Emacs 21.4 and 24.3
Vim 7.4.135
PHP 5.3.28 and 5.4.24
Python 2.7.6 and 3.3.2
Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.484, 2.0.0.353 and 2.1.0
Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 and 8.6.1
JDK 1.6.0.32 and 1.7.0.21
Mono 2.10.9
Chromium 32.0.1700.102
Groff 1.22.2
Go 1.2
GCC 4.6.4 and 4.8.2
LLVM/Clang 3.3
Node.js 0.10.24
 
Old 05-01-2014, 10:58 PM   #2
hitest
Guru
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Canada
Distribution: Void, Slackware
Posts: 7,341

Rep: Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744
Up and running with 5.5. Just finishing up applying my first patch on my box. Four patches to go.

http://www.openbsd.org/errata55.html
 
Old 05-01-2014, 11:19 PM   #3
JWJones
Senior Member
 
Registered: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,444

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709
^ Thanks for the heads-up!
 
Old 05-02-2014, 07:56 AM   #4
hitest
Guru
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Canada
Distribution: Void, Slackware
Posts: 7,341

Rep: Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744
Smile

Quote:
Originally Posted by JWJones View Post
^ Thanks for the heads-up!
You're welcome.
All 5 patches applied. Now I can relax and enjoy the goodness of OpenBSD.

Last edited by hitest; 05-02-2014 at 07:57 AM.
 
Old 05-02-2014, 08:29 AM   #5
GazL
LQ Veteran
 
Registered: May 2008
Posts: 6,882

Rep: Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988
I like OpenBSD a lot, but sadly my hardware is all 'nvidia' based, which means poor X11 performance. Wouldn't hesitate to use it for a headless box though.


BTW, Anyone using MTier for prebuilt -stable updates of the ports?
 
Old 05-02-2014, 08:33 AM   #6
hitest
Guru
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Canada
Distribution: Void, Slackware
Posts: 7,341

Rep: Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744
Quote:
Originally Posted by GazL View Post
BTW, Anyone using MTier for prebuilt -stable updates of the ports?
Yes. I've tried it and it works well, but, I now prefer to apply all of my own patches from source and re-compile my kernel and binaries manually as needed.
 
Old 05-02-2014, 08:37 AM   #7
GazL
LQ Veteran
 
Registered: May 2008
Posts: 6,882

Rep: Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988Reputation: 4988
Yep, I've done the same in the past, and would still continue to do that for the base system, but I was thinking more along the lines of updates to things like firefox, where rebuilding takes a lot of time/effort.
 
Old 05-03-2014, 09:20 AM   #8
hitest
Guru
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Canada
Distribution: Void, Slackware
Posts: 7,341

Rep: Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744
Quote:
Originally Posted by GazL View Post
Yep, I've done the same in the past, and would still continue to do that for the base system, but I was thinking more along the lines of updates to things like firefox, where rebuilding takes a lot of time/effort.
I primarily apply patches to update the base system. I will on occasion run pkg_add -Uu to see if there are any new packages for my release. OpenBSD does not usually add new versions of Fire Fox to a release from my experience.
For newer versions of Fire Fox you could run -Current. I am happy to patch my unit and use the provided software in my repository. I upgrade my OpenBSD installations at each release.
 
Old 05-03-2014, 09:35 AM   #9
cynwulf
Senior Member
 
Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 2,727

Rep: Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367
I was going to hang on with OpenBSD and upgrade to 5.5, but these days I'm short on time and Slackware just keeps me coming back. It's definitely my favourite *BSD thus far.
 
1 members found this post helpful.
Old 05-03-2014, 10:37 AM   #10
JWJones
Senior Member
 
Registered: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,444

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709
^ Agreed. I like tinkering with OpenBSD, but my daily driver is Slackware.
 
Old 05-03-2014, 12:35 PM   #11
hitest
Guru
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Canada
Distribution: Void, Slackware
Posts: 7,341

Rep: Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744
Cool

I like Slackware and OpenBSD the same. At the moment I am dual booting Slackware and OpenBSD 5.5 on two boxes. OpenBSD plays very well with lilo. I love the elegant simplicity of OpenBSD.

Code:
OpenBSD bsdbox.home.local 5.5 GENERIC.MP#0 amd64
 
Old 05-05-2014, 11:39 AM   #12
JWJones
Senior Member
 
Registered: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,444

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709Reputation: 709
I'm tempted to install 5.5 with KDE 4.11.5. This is the first time KDE4 has been in the repos, I believe.
 
Old 05-05-2014, 07:28 PM   #13
hitest
Guru
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Canada
Distribution: Void, Slackware
Posts: 7,341

Rep: Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744Reputation: 3744
Quote:
Originally Posted by JWJones View Post
I'm tempted to install 5.5 with KDE 4.11.5. This is the first time KDE4 has been in the repos, I believe.
Yeah, that would be cool. Years ago I ran KDE 3.5.x on FreeBSD 6.0 and it ran very well. I'll bet KDE on OpenBSD 5.5 would run well.
 
Old 06-25-2014, 08:53 PM   #14
astrogeek
Moderator
 
Registered: Oct 2008
Distribution: Slackware [64]-X.{0|1|2|37|-current} ::12<=X<=15, FreeBSD_12{.0|.1}
Posts: 6,258
Blog Entries: 24

Rep: Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193Reputation: 4193
spam post reported

update: spam post has been removed, thanks LQ admins!

Last edited by astrogeek; 06-25-2014 at 10:40 PM.
 
Old 06-27-2014, 04:25 AM   #15
cynwulf
Senior Member
 
Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 2,727

Rep: Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367Reputation: 2367
I'm now running 5.5-stable with KDE4. Couldn't get KDM to work (it freezes if started via rc.conf.local - I can start it manually from it's init script without problems) so gave up on that and just "startx".

Apart from that, the only problems I've encountered so far is with KDE power manager which fails with some error about dbus / backend and with kmix which I just completely disable.

Last edited by cynwulf; 06-27-2014 at 04:26 AM.
 
  


Reply


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off



Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
LXer: X.Org 7.4 To Be Released Today LXer Syndicated Linux News 0 09-10-2008 04:50 PM
OpenBSD 4.3 released today multios *BSD 0 05-01-2008 03:42 PM
New ATI drivers released today DarkFoss Linux - News 0 02-21-2007 05:56 PM
LXer: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today LXer Syndicated Linux News 0 11-01-2006 01:21 PM
New ATI drivers released today 1/17/05 Micro420 Linux - Software 12 01-27-2005 11:09 AM

LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Other *NIX Forums > *BSD

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:27 AM.

Main Menu
Advertisement
My LQ
Write for LQ
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute content, let us know.
Main Menu
Syndicate
RSS1  Latest Threads
RSS1  LQ News
Twitter: @linuxquestions
Open Source Consulting | Domain Registration