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End Of OpenBSD 3.0-STABLE Branch - Upgrade To 3.2

Posted by Hemos on from the movin'-on-up dept.

jukal writes "From here: "Hello folks, Due to the upcoming release of OpenBSD 3.2, the 3.0-STABLE branch will be out of regular maintainance starting december 1st. There will be NO MORE fixes commited to this branch after this day. People relying on 3.0-STABLE (or older releases even) are strongly advised to upgrade to a more recent release (preferrably 3.2 as it becomes available) as soon as possible. Thanks for reading, Miod" Download from your preferred FTP mirror."

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  1. Re:What World Do These People Live In? by disappear · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Give these guys a break. You had 6 months to test 3.1 and upgrade your boxes from 3.0. If you don't like their policy, use something else. As someone said over a deadly.org, if you want support for older releases, pay someone to provide patches for your system. Whatever you decide to do, stop complaining about something they give away for free.

    So I've had six months? Great --- that's about how much time it takes to do testing for a substantial site. Now I'm done and can work on other tasks? Nope, gotta do it again for the new release.

    You're right: the problem isn't the amount of notice they give. I was off on that point. However, the amount of time you get isn't enough for me to use OpenBSD at a customer's site. Eighteen months as the lifespan of a product isn't substantial enough, in my opinion.

  2. Re:Release Cycles are Open Source's major flaw by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Guess what? This problem isn't restricted to Open Source. At most Fortune 500 companies the Microsoft release cycle is problematic. Many companies are just now wrapping up their migration from Windows 95/98 to Windows 2000, and they have no plans to migrate to XP anytime soon -- especially since it seems the easiest way to switch to XP is to simply buy new computers. Word 97 does memos on a PII 233 just as well today as it did in 1997; "upgrading" to Windows/Office XP on a 1.2GHz box buys them nothing but "support" from Microsoft.

    They could support OpenBSD releases for five years and it wouldn't be long enough for some folks.

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    If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
  3. Newbie by penguin_punk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know this should really be an "Ask Slashdot" question, but I am _really_ interested in learning how to admin OpenBSD systems, and I am having a hard time trying to find books and websites aimed for beginners. Here is my question:

    Any good (Open)BSD books on the shelves?

    I am currently a sysadmin/netadmin/sys-support guy for a (really) small isp/hsoting company. Our boxes are a mixture of NT/W2K and I'm looking into operating systems for our new servers whenever they arrive. I feel adequate running a linux distro such as Slackware as a new web server, but I would love to put up a *bsd box. (As well as run mySQL, radius, ids[snort], on *nix flavours, as opposed to MS)

    I've played with Linux for about 5 years, but not consistently until this past year, where I ran Apache under Mandrake for a websrever for my friends and I (that didn't last long), as well as installed Slack 8.0 on an old p133 for a router/firewall and Slack 8.0 on my laptop. I'm not 100% fluent in *nix scripting and such, but I'm trying really hard to become less reliant on Windows. Both at home (desktop) and at work (servers). Back to my question, now that I can pull my weight with Linux, what is the best way to teach myself more OpenBSD? I've tried using it on a couple of different occasions, but I found the command names and devices so.. so... cryptic(?) to me. I have extra boxes to play on (including two new Celerons 1.3's) at home, but my spare time is almost non-existent, so I'd rather have a book I can read on the shitter or before I go to bed.

    Any ideas are GREATLY appreciated.

    (I haven't looked into this for about 6 months, but this slashdot article renewed my appreciation and lust for OpenBSD. There may have been kick-ass books and websites written within the past 6 months that deal with BSD administration, but like I said, I'm really busy and my time is tight, so even if you have a pointer that seems obvious to you, please post it up.)

    Submit/Preview?? I'll take Submit.

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    HURD - Hurd's Under Research & Development
  4. Re:Release Cycles are Open Source's major flaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Sure just assume they are all lazy... thats the *obvious* conclusion.... or could it be because SUPPORTING OLDER RELEASES IS TIME CONSUMING AND SUCKS FROM ALREADY LIMITED RESOURCES... perhaps? Are you paying their rent every month? If so then I believe you have every right to demand such a thing... if not, then who are you to make such grand claims? Oh you admin N amount of open source boxes.... and you bitch about support for software you didn't pay for? See the problem here? You want support, pay for it. If you ain't paying for it you have no reason to make any such demands.

    Hey you want your software certified on new versions of redhat? I'm sure they'd be glad to do it for you... PAY THEM. Quit bitching about how "you don't have enough time", developers are not going to put security and reliability patches on hold so you can make sure everything works just spiffy for you. Hire some people who can do their job faster.

    And it seems like you don't like even redhat...fine go elsewhere.... if you hate their release cycle so much who the fuck is holding your head to the chopping block that is preventing you from switching to something else?