Slashdot Log In
OpenBSD 4.0 Released
Posted by
kdawson
on Wed Nov 01, 2006 07:55 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."
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
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.
Classic question (Score:1)
Laptop Vendors need to step up (Score:1, Insightful)
What would Broadcom or Intel do if Dell or Hewlett Packard told them to provide documentation for each of the chips in the laptops or desktops. If it became a business decision, no Dell laptops with a non-documented Broadcom chip, would it make Broadcom wake up? Or does this argument hit a brick wall, a) they are in bed together already and of one mind. or b) Dell/HP couldn't care less about what some minor segment of the market wants?
Still, I like the looks of OpenBSD 4.0 and my order is on its way.
real patriots run BSD (Score:1)
(http://tom2tec.hopto.org/ | Last Journal: Monday February 13 2006, @05:48PM)
open unix rocks, and so does freedom
The best feature of OpenBSD... (Score:2, Interesting)
Audio CD? (Score:2)
Why wont hardware vendors give out documentation? (Score:2)
It'll have to be another donation (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.milksucks.com/ | Last Journal: Monday September 15 2003, @12:30PM)
CD Set - More toxic landfill
Posters - see t-shirts above
Audio - got to be kidding
SGI port? (Score:1)
(http://www.roadflares.org/matt)
(I've already got one running Irix at home, so that's covered.)
--saint
Hardware Crypto Accelerators (Score:2)
WooHoo! (Score:2)
(http://www.slashdot.org/~PhraudulentOne | Last Journal: Wednesday January 21 2004, @07:13PM)
Congrats on a great new release!
Why no torrent download? (Score:2)
(https://dawgchain.at/ | Last Journal: Friday January 26 2007, @01:14PM)
oh man (Score:1)
(http://ii.net/~cymeth)
Re:heh (Score:1)
(http://127.0.0.1/)
Re:biannual != semiannual (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.phemisters.co.uk/ | Last Journal: Friday April 14 2006, @04:49AM)
See for instance http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourcei
Re:Why support it? (Score:3, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Monday October 15, @11:53PM)
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.
Re:Why support it? (Score:1)
Re:Why support it? (Score:2)
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)
(http://www.arbitraryconstant.com/)
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.
Re:Amazingly small boot CD (Score:2)
Re:Why support it? (Score:1)
Response.
Ever.
You sir, are too moronic even for the typical
Re:Benefits of OpenRCS? (Score:3, Informative)
(Last Journal: Tuesday October 03 2006, @07:58PM)
Re:Obligatory BSD is dying quote (Score:1, Offtopic)
(http://ettlz.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday February 12 2006, @06:53PM)
Re:Obligatory BSD is dying quote (Score:1)
(http://www.trailofjames.com/)
Re:Theo (Score:2)
(http://theari.com/)
Re:Why support it? (Score:2)
seriously, did you think you HAD to post on every slashdot topic or something?
why dont you go waste your time elsewhere, no one cares about your opinion on OpenBSD.
Re:Amazingly small boot CD (Score:1)
(http://mcarlson.ca/)
If you don't like 'wasting' a CD for only 5MB, you can make your own install CD, it isn't that hard. There are a lot of instructions [pantz.org] out there, and I've even done it from Windows using Nero (just use the floppy image to make a bootable CD, then add in the rest of the files from the ftp site on the disk, burn, and boot!)
This time, however, I decided to buy the release. I meant to for the past several releases, but this time I got off my ass and actually did it.
Yeah, right on. (Score:1)
Re:Version numbering? (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Tuesday October 03 2006, @07:58PM)
It's not like the numbering system is confusing, works better than the Linux one.
Re:OpenBSD is free as in beer? (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Tuesday October 03 2006, @07:58PM)
You should learn to read that evidence you found about Theo outing Intel and Sun. It's over them being lying dicks, not for not donating. Intel claims to support open source and yet doesn't actually do shit to really help open source, they give lip service. Theo doesn't like that, so he talks to them, they ignore him, then he fumes about it, he tries to get them to change their ways, they ignore him still, then he tells anyone who will listen how they do not cooperate, how they are not actually supporting open source. I don't see money being listed in there for Intel's outing, and Sun's is the same story. Perhaps if you bothered to read before typing, your trolls would work better.
Re:Why support it? (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Why the heck should anyone here care about you or your needs? Mentally balanced people who don't find something meets their needs, THINK TO THEMSELVES, "this does not meet my needs" and then move on to find something which does. Meanwhile, the mentally ill rant in the streets about religion, as if people who already adhere to that-particular-brand-of-crazy need to be re-convinced or otherwise as if people who don't, actually should care. And then there are those who come into an Internet forum to tell the whole World that they don't like Pepsi.
Nobody bloody cares. Plenty of people on the other hand, care very much for OpenBSD.
It's a specialized OS for an extremely small minority of users. What a waste of resources...
Fanatastic perimeter security is not a "waste of resources". An OS with an excellent track record in security is not a "waste of resources". Web, mail, etc servers having gone through a decent security audit and running on that secure platform, is not a "waste of resources".
I use OpenBSD for many firewalls, internal and external servers and even for my own desktops. I love it, it does meet my needs, I donate and I am very grateful for the resources people put into it. It is worth people's consideration and if they find it does not meet their needs, they can just move on. Such is life.
They are not your resources, so why should you care? Do you use Linux? OpenSSH? There's a good chance that the OpenBSD people have contributed in a big way to something you use and you might not even know it.
Re:biannual != semiannual (Score:1)
I had the same conversation with someone a while ago and lost (assuming that it meant "every two years"). So now I remember what it means.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictio
reptileqc