Interview with a number of OpenBSD devs.

[n0cmonkey]

Wow. Definitely one of the best interviews I've read in a while. Covered a lot of ground too.

Here's another one, focusing on OpenBSD's network stack.

All this around OpenBSD's 10th birthday, and the arrival of 3.8!

 

[drag]

OpenBSD rocks.

The firewall, routing, and networking technology seems top-notch. OpenBSD would be perfect for many situations.

I am personally looking forward to Xen support. I've been playing around with Xen, got it working very well with Debian and I've noticed that it's very easy to completely lock off servers from the rest of the world and still be able to remotely administrate them. You don't even need ssh. If your logged into the system that is running in dom0 then you can automaticly spawn tty-like logon sessions with any of the systems running in DomU. Plus you can use the OS in Dom0's routing and firewall capabilities. OpenBSD would be absolutely perfect for that sort of thing.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: drag
OpenBSD rocks.

The firewall, routing, and networking technology seems top-notch. OpenBSD would be perfect for many situations.

I am personally looking forward to Xen support. I've been playing around with Xen, got it working very well with Debian and I've noticed that it's very easy to completely lock off servers from the rest of the world and still be able to remotely administrate them. You don't even need ssh. If your logged into the system that is running in dom0 then you can automaticly spawn tty-like logon sessions with any of the systems running in DomU. Plus you can use the OS in Dom0's routing and firewall capabilities. OpenBSD would be absolutely perfect for that sort of thing.

misc@ was asked about x86 rings a while ago.

Here's one thread.

Another. Theo's (1) responses">http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112318752216384&w=2</a> indicate that nothing will happen towards making it capable to better utilize rings (this thread isn't necessarily about Xen, but rings as a security measure). 😛 Here's a possibly interesting response from someone else.
Someone was interested in it, but not enough to write any code. I'm waiting for hardware virtualization to get my hopes up about OpenBSD. 😉

NetBSD does well on it though. Someone benchmarked cgd-on-vnd (encrypted partitions basically) on and off Xen. Some of the results were interesting.
Some information on NetBSD/Xen and networking.
Using PCI devices in guest domains.
Linux or NetBSD as dom0?. Interesting benchmarks.

And with some of the recent Google's Summer of Code work, NetBSD gets a lot more interesting. 😛

So yeah, I plan on playing with Xen whenever I get time (<Nelson>HaHa!</Nelson>), and I think I've made my selection of base OS clear. 😱

On to more news: I don't remember how much [ipmi]http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112993650617151&w=2[/L] was mentioned in the interview, but here's some more information about OpenBSD's new implimentation! 😀