OpenBSD 7.6 released [LWN.net]

OpenBSD 7.6 has been released. Notable new features include work to improve suspend/resume on modern hardware, support for the arm64 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, as well as many improvements in hardware support and driver bug fixes.

With this release all files that existed in the first commit in the OpenBSD source repository have been updated, modified or replaced at some point in time, reaching OpenBSD of Theseus.

See the changelog for all changes between OpenBSD 7.5 and 7.6.

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What does this mean: "of Theseus" ?

Posted Oct 8, 2024 8:19 UTC (Tue) by marcihm (subscriber, #144965) [Link] (7 responses)

Sorry, I am not a native speaker, however I know a little bit about Theseus (from Ovids "Metamorphosis" or maybe Gustav Schwab's "Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Altertums", I guess); BUT still I do not understand, what this means in relation with OpenBSD. Or is it just a nice codename ?
Thanx, Marc

What does this mean: "of Theseus" ?

Posted Oct 8, 2024 8:33 UTC (Tue) by excors (subscriber, #95769) [Link] (6 responses)

It's a joking reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus :

> The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.

What does this mean: "of Theseus" ?

Posted Oct 8, 2024 9:22 UTC (Tue) by marcihm (subscriber, #144965) [Link]

Oh, thanx, that's a fact to remember: interesting !

What does this mean: "of Theseus" ?

Posted Oct 8, 2024 10:57 UTC (Tue) by pwfxq (subscriber, #84695) [Link] (3 responses)

In the UK most people know it as Trigger's Broom.

(Trigger was a character in a popular comedy show and one time he commented that despite him replacing the broom's handle X times and the brush head Y time it was his best ever broom.)

What does this mean: "of Theseus" ?

Posted Oct 8, 2024 16:43 UTC (Tue) by barryascott (subscriber, #80640) [Link] (1 responses)

Or “grandfathers axe”.
I first replaced the handle then I replaced the axe head.
But this IS my grandfathers axe!

What does this mean: "of Theseus" ?

Posted Oct 11, 2024 16:33 UTC (Fri) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]

Sometimes it's "my father replaced the handle and then I replaced the head".

What does this mean: "of Theseus" ?

Posted Oct 9, 2024 14:28 UTC (Wed) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]

I'm not so sure about "most people". Perhaps in a certain demographic, but OFAH wasn't particularly popular with my cohort beyond "lovely jubbly".

What does this mean: "of Theseus" ?

Posted Oct 8, 2024 16:46 UTC (Tue) by sub2LWN (subscriber, #134200) [Link]

No man ever [commits to] the same [repo] twice, for it's not the same [repo] and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus