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OpenBSD 3.4 Released

Posted by timothy on from the new-poster-too dept.

tedu writes "We just couldn't wait another 2 days, so now you can enjoy OpenBSD 3.4 a little early and protect yourself from ghosts and goblins. More details at the OpenBSD website and official announcement. Remember to please use a mirror."

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  1. OpenBSD performance facts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OpenBSD 3.4 was a real stinker in these tests. The installation routine sucks, the disk performance sucks, the kernel was unstable, and in the network scalability department it was even outperformed by it's father, NetBSD. OpenBSD also gets points deducted for the sabotage they did to their IPv6 stack. If you are using OpenBSD, you should move away now.

  2. mod parent down by Krunch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All it says is "BSD is dying".

    --
    No GNU has been Hurd during the making of this comment.
  3. Re:OpenBSD is INSECURE, try Cryptech RAP BSD by udippel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How could someone *ever* mod this to 'informative', with a score of *one* ?

    Tastes *are* different; but maximum here might be a 5 for *funny*. And this is what it's supposed to be, 65 years after the Invasion From Mars.
    Cryptech RAP BAD (in short CRAP BAD) is a possible contender. The best part is the diode for self-destruction and the controversail material.

    Seems, CRAP BSD comes without spell-checker !?

  4. Europe is living through fascism it now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "here in "europe", we've already been through fascism. we'll see you if you ever get out the other side"

    Europe is living through it now, while America is fighting against fascism.

    Anti-semitism is alive and well in today's Vichy France and Nazi Germany. The governments in much of Europe control and run too much of private matters, such as health care and media.

  5. Re:Thoughts on security by ^BR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Too lazy (or too dumb) to use grep(1)?

    Yes there are (a lot of them). It does not means that there are security holes because of it it's just that's it's way easier to make a safety error using strcpy() than using strlcpy(). And in fact a systematic effort to eliminate those is the occasion to revisit some code long forgotten and to fix other things on the way...

    % grep -r -l strcpy linux-2.6.0-test9
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/8139too.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/sk98lin/skproc.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_c b.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/tulip/xircom_cb.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/wireless/atmel.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/wireless/atmel_cs.c
    linux-2.6.0-test9/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs. c
    [ ... plenty more ... ]

  6. Guess what... by ^BR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't use Linux, I use OpenBSD. And I took the pain of downloading the Linux kernel just to give an accurate answer to this guy...

    Like he could have done, unless he doesn't have broadband...