[cykros]

Is it just me, or is the first time that "OpenBSD" and "New" were in the same sentence? I love OpenBSD, but in fairness, its biggest virtue is usually its rock solid stability and security, derived from everything in it generally being long battle tested before ever going into OpenBSD. The idea of bleeding edge C compilers seems a bit strange, given that reputation.

[paldepind2]

The "new" in the headline refers to these compilers being newly ported to OpenBSD. OpenBSD also sometimes gets new features, sees new releases, etc. There's nothing weird about seeing "new" and "OpenBSD" in the same headline.

[asveikau]

> OpenBSD also sometimes ... sees new releases

They do two releases per year on a schedule.

[asveikau]

This is an experimental port and not about replacing clang.

That said, OpenBSD does introduce new stuff often. Over the years, they've periodically rewritten a handful of crusty old daemons for example.

[xemdetia]

I would say that for a lot of daemons OpenBSD ends up with more interesting and cleaner versions than some of the ancient BSD ilk or with some of the complexity of the GNU replacements. It's often a lot easier to port part of/some of an OpenBSD daemon with just a little bit of hacking around instead of figuring out a bigger autotools chain.

[aidenn0]

The default install is stable and secure; the ports tree is much less so. People experimenting with things on their personal workstations is a complete free-for-all.

[bejelentkezni]

It got a brand-new filesystem a couple years ago.

[nix23]

UFS2 from FreeBSD? Brand-new??

[naniwaduni]

Not really, no? Plenty of bleeding-edge goes into OpenBSD, most of it never makes it out to the rest of the world before being battle-tested there.

[practice9]

It's probably Debian you thinking of