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OpenBSD 3.7 Reviewed

Posted by Hemos on from the good-stuff-to-read dept.

busfahrer writes "Jem Matzan has written a review of OpenBSD 3.7 for Newsforge. He talks about their licensing issues, network features, upgrading packages and the new supported architectures."

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  1. That's it, I'm switching by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I liked linux back when nobody knew what it was. Now my mom even knows what it is.

    Good bye linux, hello obscurity, er, OpenBSD!

  2. Re:Not dead? by millahtime · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess BSD isn't dead after all.

    It's now a zombie. Neither dead or alive.

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  3. Re:BSD, the history by /ASCII · · Score: 1, Funny

    What are you saying??? Other people are eating BSD alive, and you say it is not dying? Microsoft bit down hard and tore BSDs left foot right of! It is decaying in the fould beasts belly as we are speaking! Of course this is killing BSD. BSD is just limping along, trying against all odds to outrun the pack of wild hyenas that are stealing more of it's codebase every day. But where are they going to run with only one foot? Where I ask you?

    Note to moderators and BSD zealots - this is a _joke_.

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  4. Re:Why Can't We All Just "Get Along"? by snookerdoodle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah - you understand perfectly.

    Just picture a bunch of little BSD Daemon guys killing Stallman and... ;-)

    Mark

  5. The shot at RMS for the day by The+Slashdotted · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article:

    The theme of the OpenBSD 3.7 CD set is The Wizard of Oz, and the cute little CD jacket cartoon strip shows the OpenBSD mascot and friends on a journey to achieve better wireless card drivers. Their adventure takes them to the Emerald City to meet the great and powerful Wizard of OS himself -- an effigy of a crown-wearing penguin. The man behind the curtain turns out to be a Richard Stallman-like character with GNU horns. The characters are disappointed because the Wizard ends up being "all talk -- no action!" So they decide to code the wireless driver by reverse-engineering the device.

    1. Re:The shot at RMS for the day by Slashcrap · · Score: 1, Funny

      Just curious, when was the last time that RMS reverse engineered a useful device and posted the driver source?

      Just curious, when was the last time Theo wrote a compiler suite capable of e.g building OpenBSD?

      That's what I love about the OpenBSD community - the total lack of arrogance.

  6. Re:Why Can't We All Just "Get Along"? by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 3, Funny
    Just picture a bunch of little BSD Daemon guys killing Stallman
    Hey! That's my "happy place"! I saw it first! Thanks for blabbing about it on Slashdot. Now everyone will want to go there, it'll get all crowded, then I'll have to find some other place to go in the middle of meetings...
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  7. Re: That's it by ulib · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Now my mom even knows what it is.

    Your mom knows a lot of other things you wouldn't suspect.

    Oh, and btw BSD rules. So, you *please* stay away from it. Thanks

    (No, I didn't forget the "post anonymously" blah blah)
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  8. Re:Declare your bias, why don't you? by RdsArts · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fact 1: BSD license isn't free enough to allow merging in GPLed code.

    Fact 2: GPL isn't free enough to allow merging in BSD licensed code.

    Fact 3: The purpose of a BSD license is to flip out and kill processes.

    BSD licenses can `kill -9` anyone they want! BSD licenses cut off threads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These licenses are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this BSD license who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a packet the BSD license killed the whole town's connection. My friend Mark said that he saw a BSD licenses totally uppercut some kid just because the kid installed GRUB on their router.

    And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!