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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. Woot! Blowfish T-shirts! by MrAnnoyanceToYou · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How much does THAT rox0r!?

    If I trusted this machine at work to not have spyware on it, I'd order one now.

    Blowfish rock.

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  2. Re:I hope by YOUR+NICK+SUCKS! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOUR NICK SUCKS!!!!

    Why you ask? BECAUSE ONLY IDIOTS, FAGGOTS and sub 13 YEAR OLDS THINK MONTY PYTHON IS FUNNY.

    YOUR NICK SUCKS!!!!

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  3. Re:How's the install? by sn0wflake · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Having virtually no experience with FreeBSD I fail to see the ease in creating a disc label by reading a 100+ KB documentation. Hate to say it but FreeBSD will never be mainstream, i.e. be popular, with those kind of assumptions. Hope someone in the community will finally take notice instead of babbling on how fine FreeBSD is.

  4. Re:How's the install? by ACNiel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was going to make a cynical joke about simply reading the man pages or the other fine documention, as a joke.

    You actually say that, with a straight face, and get modded informative. That in and of itself is funny.

    That being said, I hope I get my wire frame Puff shirt. I ordered it several weeks ago, before I realized it was a pre-order. The anticipation is killing me.

  5. Yup Still Sucks by kernelpanicked · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod me down all you want. Its only a troll if it's not true. I tried OpenBSD at version 3.3 and while the install was extremely simple the ports system was horrid. 9/10 ports failed to build and of course only gave me the infamous "ERROR 1" (for god sakes is there even an ERROR 2?) conveniently printed across the screen multiple times to cause the real information to scroll right off the monitor and be absolutely useless. After a few of these I started piping the make through less and found it was not even a build error but OpenBSD pulling down a dependency so old and out of date it no longer existed on any server, anywhere. Then a good look at the documentation and nope theres no cvsup -L 2 ports-supfile goodness to be had here. OpenBSD ports have to match the version because so much extra crap has been stuffed into this fish's ass in the base system. Attempt 2, brand new 3.7 download still hot from burncd. Still the same simple install gotta love that. Went straight to /usr/ports/shells/zsh as some of us prefer to have a real shell available on the system. Suprise welcome back my good friend ERROR 1. Brand new system, fresh ports and it can't even build a shell for the same reason 3.3 couldn't. Anyone who can handle this kind of crap has more patience and time on their hands than I do. My FreeBSD servers, workstations, and desktops, have absolutely nothing to worry about.

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