The 59th version of the OpenBSD operating system is here, six months after 7.7 , with multiple improvements in various areas.
OpenBSD's installer is not for the timid, so we do not recommend dual-booting if you don't have previous experience. That means it's best to dedicate a machine to it while you learn your way around. With version 7.8 there's an new, affordable, and fairly high performance way to do this: it now has official support for the Raspberry Pi 5 (along with multiple other Arm64 platforms .)
This support does come with an important caveat, though:
Added support for Raspberry Pi 5 (with console on serial port).
The emphasis is ours. So, you should be ready to wire up an RS-232 connector to your Pi 5's GPIO connector. There are RS-232 HATs available, and there's a small cha