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Re:OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits by albertzeyer on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:27AM (#21202098)
Nice plot. Interestingly, it seems that by far, relatively, most code from 1999 was removed. What did they add in that year, which got removed then (around 2014)?
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Re:OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits by cat199 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @10:32AM (#21203624)
not op, and not 100%/authoritative, but I can think of some things:

- adding/refactoring locking for improved SMP support

- dropping older architectures (VAX, etc)

- dropping older protocols/servers (e.g ISDN, decnet sorts of things, obsoleted proto-IPv6 versions)

- dropping/refactoring systrace

- rewriting or dropping various network routing daemons (apache HTTPD 1.3 removed from tree at this time)

- libressl replacement at this time

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_version_history

relatedly, in the openbsd world, Ted Unangst is well known enough for doing old/unused code audit+removal that there is a slang verb 'tedu' (his handle, usage e.g. "it got tedu'd") which means basically zapping old stuff. See 1st comment in the twitter thread..

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Re:OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits by pnako on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @10:39AM (#21203689)
Y2K mitigation code
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