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OpenBSD 3.1 End Of Life

Posted by michael on from the openbsd-3.1-is-dying dept.

Dan writes "OpenBSD team's Miod Vallat says that due to the upcoming release of OpenBSD 3.3, the 3.1-STABLE branch will have no more fixes committed to its branch after June 1, 2003 and should therefore be considered out of regular maintenance."

37 comments

  1. So what you're saying... by aridhol · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that OpenBSD 3.1 is DEAD! But it will be resurrected as 3.3.

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  2. OK this gave me a SHOCK!! by mnmn · · Score: 1, Insightful


    I thought its the EOL for OpenBSD.

    And I was just gettin interested with all the OpenBSD stories in slashdot these days.

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  3. How dare they??!? by Randolpho · · Score: 2, Funny

    How dare they stop supporting an old version like that? What's their problem? Who do they think they are, MICROSOFT?!?!???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!

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    1. Re:How dare they??!? by timmarhy · · Score: 0

      actually MS support products for about 4 years compared to obsd's crappy 12 months

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    2. Re:How dare they??!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ROFL try telling that to ANYBODY who needed support for their 16 bit apps and OSes after August 30, 1995.

  4. BSD 3.1 is dying!!! by mcgroarty · · Score: 3, Funny
    Well... I mean... sorry.

    Oh, just mod me down and get it over with. :-)

  5. Easy update? by saintlupus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    $ uname -a
    OpenBSD yellow 3.0 GENERIC#94 i386

    Hmm. That's not a good sign.

    Does anyone know if there's an easy way to update a box to a new version of OpenBSD without having to reinstall everything? Something like the "make world" from FreeBSD would be great.

    --saint

    1. Re:Easy update? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      err

      cd /usr/src
      make
      make install

    2. Re:Easy update? by glitchvern · · Score: 2, Informative

      The Upgrade-minifaq has a list of steps to go through for upgrading from 3.0 to OpenBSD-Current. According to 3.2's INSTALL.i386 upgrades for that version are only supported from the immediate previous release. I would follow the steps listed in the minifaq for Upgrading from 3.0. Grab etc31.tgz from ftp, untar it in your home directory or where ever and diff -r it and the old /etc and /var's on the machine for obvious things that need changing. Then I would grab the install bootdisk for 3.1 release and use the upgrade choice. Then follow the steps listed in the minifaq for Upgrading from 3.1, grab etc32.tgz, untar it, diff it and the newly changed /etc and /var making the obvious changes, grab the install bootdisk for 3.2 and use the upgrade choice there. At that point you are running 3.2-release and can either follow the directions in the mini-faq for upgrading to 3.2-stable (You won't need to follow Upgrading from 3.2 for stable), -current (You will need to follow Upgrading from 3.2 and Upgrading from 3.3), or just wait for 3.3's emminent release and use the method discussed above to upgrade to that. While the "make world" method does exist it will not easily work on an upgrade from 3.0 due to the numerous changes to the compiler and toolchain.

    3. Re:Easy update? by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 0, Troll

      Or save yourself a lot of time in the future and install an OS with user experience in mind like Debian Linux. Instead of trying to conform to the outdated 'BSD way', They do whats best for the user. a dist-upgrade in debian can easily upgrade an old install with ease.
      Why limit yourself to doing things the 30 year old BSD way? Computing shouldnt be as hard as it was back then.

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    4. Re:Easy update? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am posting this using Debian. But it is being routed by OpenBSD.

      I have to say that OBSD is much more thoughtfully designed. Every Linux distribution I can think of is about a dozen times sloppier.

      I'd rather have things sane and update /etc by hand than have a sloppy assortment of packages like Linux.

  6. do a binary upgrade to 3.3-release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    mergemaster your /etc (or better yet just back it up and manually place in your changes), and then make build to get up to -stable.

    watch out for the nosuid, etc mount stuff that 3.3 wants on partitions now as well.

  7. You basturds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Look, does slashdot also post articles about how redhat 5.1 is "dead". Fuckers.

    1. Re:You basturds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, I don't know why slashdot is so biased against the BSD's. Everyone knows the BSD's are superior os's to linux.

    2. Re:You basturds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why do you think Apple selected BSD's over a linux platform? Because its a better platform, and has a superior license.

    3. Re:You basturds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, that explains why Slashdot doesn't like BSD...

      Their a bunch of script kiddies using linux.

    4. Re:You basturds by Pharmboy · · Score: 1

      Look, does slashdot also post articles about how redhat 5.1 is "dead". Fuckers.

      actually redhat announced that it is EOLing all versions one year after the intro of the next version, even for those of us that pay for support for our current 7.2- systems. We have talked about this in several areas, although I don't see a particular article posted on it.

      But it has been talked about a fair amount.

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    5. Re:You basturds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Valid point. But when there is little news, then anything will make a headline.

      I guess it is lucky that the only people who read bsd.slashdot.org are people who either love or hate *BSD. If BSD postings starting exceeding 100 for every article then I would start to care about the anti-BSD nature of slashdot, but I also guess that if there was a lot more interest then the slashdot editors wouldn't be so anti-BSD.

  8. Re:End of Life: *BSD is dying by sx10 · · Score: 1
    Actually...

    Netcraft now confirms
    BSD holds 24 of the 25 longest uptime records. The top two servers have been up four and a half years without a reboot.

    Fact: BSD does it longer!

  9. TEHO DE RAADT IS **THE SHIT** by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    LINUX TORVALDS AND DICK STALMAN CAN ONLY WISH THEY COULD BE SO GOOD!!!!
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  10. IT IS YUO WHO IS THE RAT!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Now if they'd only get rid of Theo The Rat and stop being lame.
    [ Reply to This ]

    THEO WORKS HIS ASS OFF TO GIVE THE WORLD A FREE OS (WICH HAPPESN TO BE THE MOST SECURE, AS WELL) AND LEECHES LIKE YOU CAN ONLY SIT AND BITCH. MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY DOING SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE. YOU"LL FEEL BETTER. THEN AGAIN, MAYBE NOT. YOULL JUST DO SOMETHING LAME LIKE GNU/TURD!!! LOLL
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    1. Re:IT IS YUO WHO IS THE RAT!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow, you must be important, you used all caps and everything. I think I will change my mind about BSD and being productive after reading your comments. I don't see how I could have ever thought any different, now that you put it that way. I just wish I could mark you as a Fan.

    2. Re:IT IS YUO WHO IS THE RAT!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, nicely done! Good job hiding the skanky links, plus the dubious misspellings in the right places. I especially like the sig at the bottom - that's a nice touch.

      However, you forget that most sensible people use the show-link-address setting in our prefs, so we can see the tubgirl/goatse bits. (All we need now is for Slashdot to stop slicing the rest of the URL off and to stop using the damn 'title' tag on the links so we might ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO SEE WHERE THE FUCKING LINK GOES and life will be copascetic.)

      Anyway, great job. I award you an overall score of 8.1. Carry on sir!

    3. Re:IT IS YUO WHO IS THE RAT!!! by timmarhy · · Score: 0

      actually theo is a jerk off to be sure. but that doesn't mean obsd doesn't have it' good points, it's short EOL makes no sense from an enterprise point of view though.

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  11. It's already dead by vesamies · · Score: 1

    Get the facts straight.

  12. OpenBSD 3.1 *End Of Life* by borgdows · · Score: 2, Funny

    I won't believe you until Netcraft confirms it!!

  13. Why can't slashdot be unbiased? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I agree. I would think that a news source would want to have some amount of unbiasness.

    1. Re:Why can't slashdot be unbiased? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yea, how dare they have an opinion! I can't believe that a web site would have a perspective on this subject! Whats next, Salon being leftist? Rush Limbaugh's site being far right? This has to stop!

      (for the love of god, i hope you see the sarcasm)

  14. That is to say by deadfishhotmail.com · · Score: 1

    Well...ok...so Netcraft proves that BSD is still dying but very slowly!

    Ok ok, so I'm just Trolling, Ed

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  15. Re:End of Life: *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    BSD holds 24 of the 25 longest uptime records

    49 of the top 50 in fact, with the 25th longest held by an anomolous Win2k machine.

  16. Re:End of Life: *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    BSD holds 24 of the 25 longest uptime records [netcraft.com]. The top two servers have been up four and a half years without a reboot.

    Afraid it won't boot up again?

    *duck*