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OpenBSD 3.0 Ready for Pre-Orders
osiris writes: "Theo de Raadt has just announced that OpenBSD 3.0 is now accepting pre-orders. 3.0 will now be shipping with 3 cds supporting booting from cd for 6 architectures. Plus there is a bonus audio track on the cd :) Plus the all new pf firewall, which replaces Darren Reed's ipf. I hear pf is pretty rock solid with quite a few new features."
here is the release page as well. and here is the coverart.
Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of work has gone into pf, but I just don't trust a 6-month-old (and not even that) firewall. I plan on sticking with 2.9 for a few more releases while everything gets ironed out.
Don't listen to the trolls :-) First off, there are multiple BSD's out there. Not nearly as many as the Linux distros. I won't go into the differences here, that's beating a dead horse. I am a huge fan of all the BSD's. All of them have come a long way and are quite stable. The only one that I know of having any trouble is FreeBSD since WindRiver gave them the big boot. Now they're off on their own, which might actually be a good thing since they didn't seem all that interesting in open source development like BSDi was when they first purchased Walnut Creek CD-ROM.
OpenBSD has been cranking out a release pretty solid every six months ever since I first messed with it at 2.5.
NetBSD seems to be in good shape too. The developers seemed to be on their toes. Someone found a few large security holes in 1.5.1 and they had the fixes in the source tree in a couple of days and on CD as version 1.5.2 before some of the vendors could even push out their 1.5.1 CD's!
This is the fruit of the lisence audit OBSD went thru a while back. As many of you remember this was started when Theo elegantly let the world know abotu certain software not being intelectually free... so he simply yanked things out of the official ports tree, and reverse-engineered everything displaced by the vacume. Well now that the dramma is over, it is now safe to relase new features.
I guess Theo really can piss further than anybody else in a pissing match.
It isn't a lie if you belive it.
They've added alpha as a bootable architecture. Does anybody still make alpha machines anymore? And if they do, how long will it be before HPaq kills it off entirely?
There is an audio track on one of the CDs. Has anyone heard it? MP3?
Why this music theme?
What's the audio track of? There's no info on the openbsd.org site.
I hope it's a talk about something.
The IPv6 stack has been developed on NetBSD. The problem, you see, is that idiots like you don't know what the BSD people are. They are developers, and theirs works reach far places in Sun, Microsoft and you can tell everything you want: BSD has been created from the Net Releases long ago before Linux, and it will be there when Linux is gone. BSD is the Unix. Unix made Internet.
You're just a lamer.
You think we CARE of what you think ?
We don't give a damn nor a fuck. Stick with your prefered OS and let us live on BSD quietly. I don't choose an OS because it's the most used (this would mean using windows right now); I choose an OS for its QUALITIES.
You understand that, dumb ass ?
You're so stupid you think an OS is to be choosed because it's mainstream. How stupid you must really be to believe that way.
Go Linux, go Microsoft, go rub yourself.
Man that blowfish dude, be scratchin' out them fat beats. I needs to install that shizit on my system so I can bump with the best with them. Don't need no playa haters to be rootin my box. Yeah foo, I got 300 watts of power behind my Overlclocked Celeron.
Peace out...