OpenBSD 4.0 Pre-orders are Available

fuzzyping1 writes "Pre-orders for OpenBSD 4.0 are now available in the online store. Five architectures on three CDs in a soft-shell DVD case. Check out the highlights of OpenBSD 4.0. This new release includes support for many new wireless chipsets, the UltraSPARC III platform, a new load-balancing feature for network trunks, and much, much more."

BSD Section

[dokebi]

Why isn't the BSD section no longer listed on the left hand Sections menu? The Slashdot bias against BSD has gone on far too long. Editors, bring back the BSD section!

Re:ripoff

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

why does it cost more in Europe ?

If you have a problem with that, why aren't you buying copies in the US and selling them in Europe?

International Orders

[nighty5]

Anyone outside the US / Canana know how much to send the CDs? The website doesn't say - and this is even right up to supplying your CC information.....

I would prefer to know.. even a rough guide how much.... because I've seen cases (on other sites) were the shipping costs outweighs the cost of the product!

Java, coming soon?

[Anonymous Coward]

I would love to use OpenBSD for more things, but I can't until I have a solid way to run Java apps on it. gcj is promising, but it won't run my real-world Java apps that I need, like NetBeans and JBoss. Likewise for Apache Harmony, Kaffe, and all the others. I'm hoping that Sun will come through with its promise to open source Java, and that there could be a native-compiled Java 6 for OpenBSD, which would let me switch over to it. Any ideas on this?

Re:International Orders

[raffe]

It wasnt very expensive to send it to europe. They send it from belgium to sweden for a few euros. At least this was the case for 3.2...:-D

Re:OpenRCS

[Ed Avis]

RCS can be quite handy to use for configuration files, so you can have /etc/fstab and /etc/fstab,v. It's also used as a backend for other programs, like CVS (in the early days - CVS still uses RCS format files in its repository but has its own code to handle them) or to provide version history in TWiki.

USB support - FRITZ!Box Fon modem/router?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can one use the USB version of aDSL modem/router FRITZ!Box Fon under OpenBSD 4.0? The hardware support pages at openbsd.org are not clear to me as to whether one can use this router (even post-installation) or not.

Re:Java, coming soon?

[ifrag]

Linux binary support under OpenBSD is surprisingly good; you might give that a whirl. Just install the port emulators/redhat, execute 'sysctl kern.emul.linux=1', and change /etc/sysctl.conf. Then use a Linux JRE.

The Linux support is actually so good that I got a dedicated Quake 3 linux server binary running on my OBSD box :)