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OpenBSD 3.7 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the come-and-get-it dept.

pgilman writes "It's official: OpenBSD 3.7 has been released. There are oodles of new features, including tons of new and improved wireless drivers (covered here previously), new ports for the Sharp Zaurus and SGI, improvements to OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, CARP, PF, a new OSPF daemon, new functionality for the already-excellent ports & packages system, and lots more. As always, please support the project if you can by buying CDs and t-shirts, or grab the goodness from your local mirror."

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  1. How's the install? by m50d · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Manually creating a BSD disklabel is not to be taken lightly. If you're experienced you can do it, but it's very far from friendly. Anyone know if they've done anything to make it easier?

    --
    I am trolling
  2. I hope by Knights+who+say+'INT · · Score: 3, Interesting

    .. the song is good.

    "Systemagic" and "E-railed" are still my favorite ones. They went sillier after that. "The Ballad of Puffy Hood" is okay-ish, anyway.

    "Systemagic" is really a nice song to chant, drunk, with nerd friends."Cracking the bedroom, HEY, cracking the vault, cracking the bedroom HEY SECURE BY DEFAULT. CAAAAAAAAAAAAAN'T FIIIIIIIGHT THE SYSTEMAGIC. ÜBER TRAGIC. CAAAAN'T FIGHT THE SYSTEMAGIC! SYSTEMAGIC!.

  3. Hmm by rsax · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I wonder what's the reason for not signing the checksums.

    ftp://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/i386/

  4. OpenBSD clusters make my heartbeat faster... by Yannic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here's the plan:
    1. Set up High Availability router with pfsync. (using computers rescued from the trash)
    2. Set up a HA Network RAID system using DRBD or something similar. (using more computers rescued from the trash)
    3. Build a Kerrighed or OpenSSI Single System Image cluster. (using the latest and greatest computers one can rescue from the trash)
    4. ???
    5. Profit! (and thus, have enough money to actually buy equipment)

    I've already set aside Tuesday evening to upgrade my bandwidth throttling OpenBSD router. I set it up the day before 3.6 came out, so I didn't feel like upgrading until now. I'm tired of the typical hardware failures you tend to get out of computers people throw out (maybe that's why they threw them out in the first place) but mostly I'm looking forward to getting a learning experience hundreds of times more valuable (personally) than getting my MCSE 2003.

    \/\/\/