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OpenBSD 3.5 Released

Posted by michael on from the security-takes-work dept.

pgilman writes "The word just hit the announce@openbsd.org mailing list: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.5. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of eight years with only a single remote hole in the default install. As in our previous releases, 3.5 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system" including security, hardware support, software ports, and lots more. Support the project if you can by ordering the cds, or grab it from the net (use a mirror!). Thanks to Theo and the whole team!"

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  1. Re:pfsync/CARP by PatJensen · · Score: 5, Informative
    When you can do the following, OpenBSD will be a Cisco IOS killer.
    • Configure, maintain and secure your routing protocols and interfaces in one easy to read and edit configuration file.
    • Store the configuration in solid-state flash memory.
    • Upgrade the entire OS by TFTP'ing a single file.
    • Provide support for many types of LAN and WAN interfaces (DSx, hardware accelerated ATM segmentation and reassembly, etc.)
    • Provide support for layer 2/3 QoS packet tagging in hardware (on ALL WAN interface types i.e. ATM, Frame, DSx) to reduce CPU load on distribution routers.
    • Handle IPv4 traffic routing in hardware, with the OS just maintaining flow state information.
    • Provide support for the plethora of legacy protocols that are on corporate networks (DLSw, X.25, etc.)
    When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

    -Pat

  2. Re:"single remote hole" by cperciva · · Score: 5, Informative

    What was it?

    OpenSSH.

    --
    Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
  3. I'll bite too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's begin hacking this one apart :P

    1) Devry... nice.. :P not.
    2) A company capable of buying quad xeon hardware doesn't sound like the kind of cmopany that needs to resort to running a workstation OS--XP Professional--on a server. Plus, Windows XP will only use 2 CPUs maximum.
    3) Like mentioned before, you'd never run OpenBSD on an SMP box in a production scenario
    4) What kind of password? The Windows XP password has nothing to do with Dell. If you mean the BIOS password, that has nothing to do with Windows.
    5) Microsoft's multi-user computing (read: NT Domains/Active Directory) is actually quite good.
    6) If your server had three years of uptime, there was probably (I'm sure there wasn't but I don't want to be wrong) no OpenBSD SMP support (not even beta) 3 years ago... I wonder how your boss feels about a server having 75% of its computing power being unused.

    There's more wrong with your post, but why bohter...

  4. Re:Downloadable ISO? by incabulos · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are unofficial ISO complilations of OpenBSD available is you want to search around for a bit. Or you could buy the official 3 CD pack and support the project that way.

    I think the easiest way to do an installation ( I ran 3.5 up on an old p-166 this evening ) is to download the arch-specific install files ( ie everything under /i386 for run of the mill x86 cpus ), and set them up on a local web or ftp server. 'dd' the boot floppy image to a spare disk ( floppy35.fs will suit 90% of cases ), boot up with this on the system, and simply follow the prompts for the ftp/http install. Or you could simply do a ftp install from a local OpenBSD mirror across the internet.

    For detailed info on the install, see the FAQ.

    The Errata page should be checked regularly too. Unlike the 3.4 release that had a number of bugfixes that needed to be applied as soon as it was officially released, 3.5 has no need for further patching at this point in time.