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OpenBSD 4.0 Released
Posted by
kdawson
on Wed Nov 01, 2006 08:55 AM
from the humppa-negala dept.
from the humppa-negala dept.
Undeadly Halloween writes, "On October 18th, OpenBSD celebrated its 11th birthday and ten years of punctual biannual releases. Now it's time for OpenBSD 4.0, which includes tons of new drivers for wireless, network, and storage chips. Consider helping the project by buying the new goodies (CD set, t-shirt, poster, Audio CD). And discover what's new and what battles developers must face daily to support new hardware in the traditional interview featuring nearly 20 developers."
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Nice. (Score:2, Interesting)
Now supporting the Amish (Score:3, Funny)
"OpenBSD/armish"
I read that as OpenBSD/amish. You can imagine the visions that swirled through my head at that point.
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The best feature of OpenBSD... (Score:2, Interesting)
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This is a dream for those of us forced to have to run linux executables
No... the best feature is the research (Score:3, Insightful)
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Audio CD? (Score:2)
Why wont hardware vendors give out documentation? (Score:2)
It'll have to be another donation (Score:3, Funny)
CD Set - More toxic landfill
Posters - see t-shirts above
Audio - got to be kidding
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See for instance http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid =Mozilla-search&va=Biannual+ [webster.com] which says biannual means "occurring twice a year" compare with biennial http://www.webster.com/dictionary/biennial+ [webster.com] "occurring every two years"
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Gotta love that precision.
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If you were attempting to troll, *looks at userid* that was pretty pathetic.
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Check this [laughingsquid.com] cool picture as well.
I could use a security-enhanced toaster at my office though...
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Name it, and stop trolling.
OpenBSD is a normal Unix system (most software compiles), supports FreeBSD and Linux binary emulation. Has Wine in ports, etc.
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I doubt the great majority of Unix users make use of Wine, anyhow.
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Cisco IP Communicator
Any brand of SQL based tools. Take your pick!
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Could you please name what applications you need to run, and at which point they stop?
If it's not too much hardware dependant, maybe there is a way to run it on OpeBSD. It even has linux/freebsd/solaris/others binary compatibility (to some extent).
Post your problem and I'll try to help you (if you want, of course).
heh (Score:4, Informative)
For example, our Internet connection at work is managed by OpenBSD. If I rebooted our firewall, no one would notice, because the backup would kick in and it would preserve state for everything, even pre-existing TCP connections. You could be streaming music and it wouldn't even skip. How can I do that with Linux again?
"I can't run any of the stuff I need to run under OpenBSD, so why the heck should I even care about it?"
Hm. Whenever I have that problem, I just download the Linux version and run it under binary emulation.
Parent
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make them change their minds later. The key is to make this as visible an issue
as possible.
Talk to the chip manufacturers.
Talk to the OEMs.
Talk to the people who do the purchasing for your company. If you're lucky,
they might start asking the right questions when they place an order. That's
the kind of thing that makes Dell/HP/etc take notice.
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The gcc is one of the last remaining non-BSD licensed bits in OpenBSD, OpenBSD has