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OpenBSD 3.1 Released
Telent writes "OpenBSD 3.1 is out. I've been using a -current snapshot from April as my desktop, and this is truly an amazing release with lots of new PF tricks, improved driver support, and many other cool things. Get it from the master site at ftp.openbsd.org, or use a mirror when possible. Even the release art kicks butt. Enjoy!"
Has anyone looked at the MicroBSD project yet?
It's based upon an OpenBSD-current kernel (so you get PF and all the great OpenBSD stuff), with FreeBSD tools, an hardened installation, custom additions and ports, a stripped-down base, etc.
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Originally, OpenBSD used a daemon; the fish came from BlowFish.
It happened, however, that people were starting to assume that daemon meant FreeBSD at around the same time as BlowFish became popular, so the openbsd crew decided to use the fish as mascot.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
It would be nice if an OS would take sendmail out of their default install and try something else more secure and with better config files, such as postfix. For an OS all about "security," you'd think they'd get rid of sendmail. Maybe we can look forward to this in 3.2?
everyone else has pointed out why they are not available but they have no offered you any alternatives, personally i have found the ftp install from a floppy disk to be painless and there are many third parties who offer openbsd iso's.. just because they're not distributed by openbsd.org doesn't mean they don't work and theo's copyright is unenforced afiak (i've never heard of anyone getting sued or otherwise for using an iso)
i have bought several cd distributions and several t-shirts however, so don't blindly leech, i have been running an openbsd server for a couple years and i have to say it's almost *too* stable.. by the it breaks or needs upgrading i've usually forgotten how to go about doing that because it's so good you don' thave to fix shit all the time... its an excellent server, simple and elegant design, i highly reccomend trying it.
as for your isos ask on irc or look around, they probably won't be out immediately, but then if you have th ebandwidth to download the iso's you should be fine w/ an ftp install.. you don't really need the media for anything anyway, ports provides everything and the ftp install is actually faster since once you download the shit it's readily available rather than having to burn a cd and then install it..
you get cool stickers w/ the cd sets however, this alone has provided enough motivation for me in the past, the stickers are invaluable =)