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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by trasz on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:17AM (#33139065)
>OpenVMS

I suspect by “battle-tested” they didn’t mean World War 2.

(/s of course, and trying out the x86 port is high on my TODO list.)

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by protomyth on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:22AM (#33140714)
On a serious note, I dearly wish someone had taken the lessons of OpenVMS into the open source world. Its clustering is amazing.
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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by zasdffaa on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:20AM (#33141340)
Could you elaborate/provide a few reading pointers please?
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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by protomyth on Sunday October 09, 2022 @01:55PM (#33143620)
https://vmssoftware.com/products/clusters/

We had machines in two buildings with multiple machines in the cluster. You could upgrade machines in a cluster and not lose any time. I thought DragonflyBSD is trying to head in that direction with storage (HAMMER).

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by trasz on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:54AM (#33141737)
I believe the problem here is business-level, and this can’t really be fixed technically. The problem is, this kind of design requires organized commitment to run it to completion, and can’t work in a culture focused on dropping a half-working MVP early and then failing to follow up.
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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by aliqot on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:36AM (#33140843)
Latest release was 2 months ago.
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