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OpenBSD 3.3 Released
An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 3.3 was released today, with many new features, including integration of the ProPolice stack protection technology, W^X ('write xor X') on sparc, alpha and hppa, privilege separated XFree86 and an incredible number of enhancements and stability improvements to the packet filter, pf, including address pools for reverse NAT/load balancing, ALTQ integration for network conditioning, and anchors/tables/spamd for spam tar-pitting. Information on the release can be found here and download sites are listed here. (Also, here's a handy way to speed up your DSL connection - prioritizing empty TCP ACKs and ToS low-delay traffic with OpenBSD 3.3's pf.)"
I'm continually impressed by the amount of improvements in each new release of OpenBSD, the frequency of the releases (6 months), and the sheer amount of value that each new release brings.
If anyone hasn't tried OpenBSD yet, give it a shot - you're certain to appreciate the quality that goes into it.
Regarding various troll-slams on OpenBSD... I dunno, I'm using OpenBSD and it's great. Nowhere to go but up, as far as I'm concerned. FreeBSD and NetBSD don't have much of a value proposition in my book compared to mainstream Linux distros, but if you want a secure webserver (or network appliance) without having to patch the thing all the damn time, OpenBSD seems a heck of a lot better than any Linux variant.
That said, I'm not dogmatic about this; it's just the conclusion I've come to based on the evidence I've seen so far.
--LP
OpenBSD is built around being secure, not on high performance multiprocessor support for hosting huge database servers.
/. servers, the web server is a PIII 600MHz and the database server is a quad Xeon 550MHz system.
look at
Newer desktop systems are equal to the quad box minus the extra cache on the xeons.
So, IMHO SMP support is not a huge deal and should not be for most sub 1000 user companys.
Privacy? Not in this lifetime.