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The OpenBSD project was spawned from NetBSD (a member of the 4.4BSD |
The OpenBSD project was spawned from NetBSD (a member of the 4.4BSD |
family) and is developed separately. As well as developments by our |
family) in the summer of 1996 and is now developed completely |
development group, good changes from the other free operating systems |
separately. As well as developments by our development group, good |
are evaluated and merged into OpenBSD. We track bug reports and |
changes from the other free operating systems are evaluated and merged |
source tree changes from the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects fairly |
into OpenBSD. We track bug reports and source tree changes from the |
closely. Even pieces of code from the Linux projects have been used. |
NetBSD and FreeBSD projects fairly closely. Even pieces of code from |
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the Linux projects have been used. |
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In the early days of OpenBSD, it was possible to be able to say |
In the early days of OpenBSD, it was possible to be able to say |
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<li>New quirk for another Archive VIPER scsi tape drive. |
<li>New quirk for another Archive VIPER scsi tape drive. |
<li>Support <strong>-[width]</strong> option in fmt(1). |
<li>Support <strong>-[width]</strong> option in fmt(1). |
<li>Add XPG4 <strong>-r</strong> option to du(1). |
<li>Add XPG4 <strong>-r</strong> option to du(1). |
<li><a href=ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/tools/openbsdpower.gif>New |
<li><a href=http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/tools/openbsdpower.gif>New |
fancy OpenBSD logo for your use</a>. |
fancy OpenBSD logo for your use</a>. |
<li>Change chflags(2) and fchflags(2) to take a u_int for the second |
<li>Change chflags(2) and fchflags(2) to take a u_int for the second |
parameter. |
parameter. |
<li>Fix two bugs in adduser(8). |
<li>Fix two bugs in adduser(8). |
<li>Pull in all the NetBSD changes to the old version of gas over the |
<li>Pull in all the NetBSD changes to the old version of gas over the |
last year or so. |
last year or so. |
<li>Remote the ftp(1) `stdout redirection' hack and replace it with a |
<li>Remove the ftp(1) `stdout redirection' hack and replace it with a |
<strong>-o filename</strong> option (which also understands a |
<strong>-o filename</strong> option (which also understands a |
filename of "-" to mean stdout). |
filename of "-" to mean stdout). |
<li>On the i386, move XFree86 aperature driver into the kernel. The new |
<li>On the i386, move XFree86 aperature driver into the kernel. The new |