Dear OpenBSD developers and users:
Regretfully, I have decided to abandon OpenBSD and thought I would share my reasoning with this list. I thought the 4th of July was a good date to do so since my reasons address national security implications. As a group of people who take development, security, and privacy seriously, I know you will want to know why I made the drastic decision to abandon OpenBSD and never look back.
Hi guys.
I’m a civil engineer by day and use OpenBSD at night, but I’m trying to do high-end CAD on my home PC and OpenBSD doesn’t support 64-bit Intel chips.
Don't believe me? It says so very clearly at the OpenBSD/amd64 page: “All versions of the AMD Athlon 64 processors and their clones are supported.” But does not mention or list any Intel chips. Not one.
Wtf? I can do CAD on my i7-980X under Windows 7 SP 1, but I’d rather use something secure and responsibly coded like OpenBSD. Except that I can't.
Why for the life of this platform are we not on the only future direction for the platform? And I mean that literally. Neither AMD nor Intel sells 32-bit chips anymore. If OpenBSD remains stuck at 32 bits, people will stop using and developing for it.
Who makes the decision to keep OpenBSD off of 64-bit Intel? And why the hell are they doing so?
-jash
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:01:04 -0500
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries
From: <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: <majordomo@vger.kernel.org>, <linus@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Well then...
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Linus Torvalds <linus@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest.
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