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OpenBSD 3.0 Ready for Pre-Orders

Posted by timothy on from the tight-security dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Someone told me that BSD was dying. by kenfrid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    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!

  2. Wierd timing by pdqlamb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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?

  3. audio track? by InvisibleCraterFunk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is an audio track on one of the CDs. Has anyone heard it? MP3?
    Why this music theme?