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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. Re:Thoughts on security by __past__ · · Score: 5, Insightful
    That's certainly a good thing, but it raises the question of why they were there in the first place. I mean, everyone's known for ages that these are unsecure, and the manpage lists it a bug etc.
    You realize that OpenBSD is not a clean-room reimplementation of Unix? Most of the code is probably simply ages old, probably older than strlcpy and friends, or the OpenBSD project itself. Obviously, there was a time where programmers thought gets would be a useful function...
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  2. Binary format changed to ELF by snake_dad · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Be careful when upgrading from older versions of OpenBSD, the upgrade procedure for i386 is a little bit more complicated than usual. As noted here and here. There's a document describing a possible upgrade path available from 3.3 to 3.4.

    As I was lucky enough to run into this on a relatively new install I could just do a complete reinstall, but not reading the upgrade instructions can get you in a lot of trouble this time... :)

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  3. Re:OpenBSD performance facts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And of course you are completely unbiased. I note you did not give a sampling of the many posts that acknowledge OpenBSD is never going to be the best performing OS out there. And it is pretty obvious the developers trade off performance for security (in both their effort and their designs). Are Linux and FreeBSD better performers? Do they scale better than OpenBSD? Yes. Of course they do. Is it a big deal? Well, that depends on what you want to do doesn't it?

  4. I think his question by mindstrm · · Score: 2, Insightful

    was more like
    "Given the ferocity with which the OpenBSD nazis fix things like this in their code wouldn't this sort of thing, in the kernel, be one of the first things they did?"

    Indeed, I thought this was done quite a while ago...

  5. Re:What he/she really meant is... by LordHunter317 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    DO NOT USE OpenBSD ISOs you randomly find on the Internet. During the 3.3 release, many people downloaded ISOS, only to find out that they were trojaned. This is not a safe, nor supported way, of installing OpenBSD.

    If you want the CDs so bad, buy them. They're only $40.

  6. Re:Thoughts on security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

    Figures that someone would be an asshole about this. Perhaps the guy doesn't use Linux and it's a pain in the ass to go download all the source, uncompress it, and then grep it out when there's someone that already knows the answer to this simple question?

    Sheesh, grow up.

  7. Re:WRONG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But then what's the point of releasing it under the GPL? One could alyways take the BSDL instead and bypass the restrictions.

  8. Re:Just a thought ... Go buy the official CD's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because OpenBSD does not offer any iso images for download. The official iso images are copyrighted by Theo and can only be gotten by buying the CD's or by pirating them. Or course you could make your own homebrew iso images, that's perfectly legal, and then distribute them as torrent files. But the OpenBSD project depends on CD sales to fund the continued development of the OS. Go buy the official CD's.

  9. Re:shocking concern by chadm1967 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Okay, actually, this is OpenBSD......

    It's not funny when it's done right. It's extremely not funny when you do it wrong.

  10. Re:OpenBSD performance facts by mcroot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps I'm being a little too demanding. But if you can't properly operate the disk partitioning tools for an OS, maybe you aren't really qualified to be doing benchmarks on it.

    Most of the comments about Felix being an idiot have good reason for doing so. He went out of his way to trash talk OpenBSD, and most of the problems he encountered were as a direct result of his inability to RTFM. Why should the OpenBSD community have any patience for someone who bechmarks first and ask's questions later ?