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June 13, 2012 06:05 pm

OpenBSD Fork Bitrig Announced


With the goal of bringing more experimental development to the OpenBSDcode base, a few developers have announced a fork namedBitrig. According to their FAQ, Bitrig aims to build a small systemtargeting only modern hardware and "be a very commercially friendly code base by using non-viral licenses where possible." Their first step toward that goal was removing GCC in favor of LLVM/Clang. The project roadmap shows their future goals as adding FUSE support, improving multiprocessing, porting the system to ARM, and replacing the GNU C++ library with LLVM's.

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