OpenBSD 7.0 Released

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  • oksh

    Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).

  • ...and that ksh descended from pdksh, and is distributed as the oksh portable project here:

    https://github.com/ibara/oksh

    The MirBSD Korn Shell also descended from pdksh, and it can be found here:

    http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm

    I don't know about the feature differences and code quality between these two; they both implement most of ksh88, and a small amount of ksh93.

    I prefer mksh when I need something more than a POSIX shell.

  • nix

    Nix, the purely functional package manager

  • There are a couple issues tracking FreeBSD support for Nix [0,1], the package manager indicating it works there. Depending on the level of integration you want that might be sufficient, that would already be enough to generate the system config files for example, but to get the sort of integration you get on NixOS with different generations and the ability to rollback at boot would require more work. This would look something more like nix-darwin [2] than NixOS really.

    I wouldn't be entirely surprised if OpenBSD works too, I might spin up a VM and see...

    [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3280

    [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/81459

    [2] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

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  • nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  • There are a couple issues tracking FreeBSD support for Nix [0,1], the package manager indicating it works there. Depending on the level of integration you want that might be sufficient, that would already be enough to generate the system config files for example, but to get the sort of integration you get on NixOS with different generations and the ability to rollback at boot would require more work. This would look something more like nix-darwin [2] than NixOS really.

    I wouldn't be entirely surprised if OpenBSD works too, I might spin up a VM and see...

    [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3280

    [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/81459

    [2] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

  • nix-darwin

    nix modules for darwin

  • There are a couple issues tracking FreeBSD support for Nix [0,1], the package manager indicating it works there. Depending on the level of integration you want that might be sufficient, that would already be enough to generate the system config files for example, but to get the sort of integration you get on NixOS with different generations and the ability to rollback at boot would require more work. This would look something more like nix-darwin [2] than NixOS really.

    I wouldn't be entirely surprised if OpenBSD works too, I might spin up a VM and see...

    [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3280

    [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/81459

    [2] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

  • InitWare

    The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. Its main component is a service management ("init") system.

  • I'm the first to admit that I'm ignorant of the facts here, but seeing that a systemd fork ran on OpenBSD for the first time two months ago does not give me confidence that it's "an option" in the sense that you can trust it to work well.

    And to be pedantic (this is an OpenBSD thread, after all), it's not "systemd", it's a fork of systemd called "InitWare", and the GitHub repo describes it as "alpha software".

    Someone also pointed out in the discussion you linked that it doesn't seem to include journald. Here's a relevant PR: https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare/pull/27

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