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OpenBSD 3.4 Released
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."
Since when does Slashdot care about overloading webservers?
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
...perfect code is irrelevant to security! Didn't you hear me?!
-Bill
Given a choice between free speech and free beer, most people will take the beer.
How can anyone trust an operating system like OpenBSD when its insecure, come on it still has a root account, You obvoously haven't used Cryptech Radicacally Advanced PowerBSD. This operating system uses the "swallow the key" principle. Once installed, you are pernemently in a sandbox, with NO WAY to get root access becasue THERE IS NONE, For extra security the Installation CDROM has a built in Self destruct mechanism. Once It installs it scans a special diode embedded into the disk and destroys the CDROM. No one has managed to hack a Cryptech RAP BSD box, and I have ran one connected to the Internet on a high volume site (10,000,000 hits a month) which publishes controversail material. Noone out of the THOUSANDS of kiddies have manged to get in so far, and good riddance.
This is a troll honeypot. I'd like to warn my fellow trolls: This article is just a simulation to get your IP-address, MAC-adresses and your trolling license number. Congress just passed a law that gives ISPs the right to surgically remove the testicles of newsgroup-posters when it is obvious that an allergic reaction to a mix of certain hormones is causing them to write annoying messages against their will. I sent this info to slashdot three days ago, but they're holding back the article to catch as many trolls as they can. Please trust me and stay away for at least 6 months. I will post again, when it is safe, and I will then lead the davastating counterstrike against the slashdot facilities. At this time just wait and reform our troops.
The Brainbug.
Remove unlicensed MATH_EMULATE code (written by some guy named Torvalds) from the kernel, leaving only the GNU emulation code for the moment.
Gotta love that.
what we're not supposed to use strcpy?
And you think the discussion on the OpenBSD side was less biased? Well, I'll just show you some of the comments from misc@openbsd.org about the article:
:-) It shows the real attitude of most OpenBSD fanboys. Later, in the newsgroup de.alt.sysadmin.recovery, Felix summarized what kind of emails he got from the different projects. Some of the Linux people found it interesting, FreeBSD seems to have been quite friendly too (a few asked about benchmarking 4.8), the NetBSD people immediately explained why the mmap benchmark measured a worst case situation in NetBSD, and immediately started improving NetBSD performance-wise. But about OpenBSD he wrote that he only got only two emails that were not insulting. Some people even explained to him that the 1024 cylinder limit he mentioned in the article doesn't exist (it does! I know one person that tried to fix it, but his patches were not taken because he used intel syntax instead of AT&T syntax in some assembler files), and some people said that OpenBSD doesn't crash as he described. So far, the crash could be reproduced and is in the OpenBSD bugtracking system.
"Because as Lars pointed out before, benchmarks are seldom little more than a great way to use numbers to prove your point. Especially coming from this overtly pro-linux, anti-openbsd in the flesh little devil Felix. The benchmarks he provides serve little more than to feed his
pro-linux ego and no real interest in improving OpenBSD, and neither do your (collectively) rantings as to this being proof that OpenBSD is broken. [...] The intuitive way to meet this attitude is to benchmark now the security advantages of OpenBSD where it outperforms Linux."
"Leitner is a linux bigot, he's very anti-openbsd (obvious to anyone who's ever read his rantings), the tests shows OpenBSD in a bad light, draw your own conclusions."
"I have better things to do than testing networking performance of operating systems. I'm very busy already. I've chosen OpenBSD as my server OS, because security is my main concern. I like it a lot. So far, nothing I've read has convinced me to install something else. I took time however to discredit (rightfully I think) this guy's test, because it struck me as being very unjust."
"Theo could easily rewrite OpenBSD to thrash these other OSes, real things like multiprocessor support are a real drag for them, so OpenBSD could be heaps faster. But who cares how many binds/second can be done, this isn't real "work", so what does it prove?"
I especially like the last one.
A monkey is doing the real work for me.
it will be called the "Tombstone".
It's the DAEMONS you have to worry about... (it had to be said, right? RIGHT???)
Maybe they were busy with their "security by repeated assertion" strategy before.
Programming can be fun again. Film at 11.
Funny how Microsoft says the same thing about Windows XP isos....
A Good Intro to NetBS