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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: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.

  4. 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.