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OpenBSD 3.8 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gentlemen-start-your-compilers dept.

Cowards Anonymous writes "OpenBSD 3.8 is out. It comes with improved hardware support, some improvements to the OSPF daemon, some new RAID management tools, among many others. Even if you plan on installing via FTP, why not order a CD copy, tshirt, or poster as well? "

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  1. One of the most important things by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    One of the most important things new in this release is the mmap(2) based malloc(3) implementation. I can't believe the submitter didn't mention it. It has huge implications, in terms of added security and increased code quality overall. Already, important off-by-one bugs have been found and fixed in X.org which had been sitting there un-noticed for years. These bugs could cause the X server to crash on many systems, but OpenBSD exposed them reproducibly so they could be fixed.

    Read more about it in this Security Focus article titled Security-related innovation in Unix and in Theo de Raadt's post to misc@.

  2. Re:We are dorks by LurkerXXX · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a BSD we are talking about. The number refers to the whole operating system. Not just a kernal as in Linux. The same team that works on the kernal works on the rest of the system as well.

  3. Re:part 2- not trolling, just a little frustrated by Fezmid · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have you even TRIED installing OpenBSD? It's simple. Download a 1M install disk, burn to CD, boot off the CD, select install, and it downloads everything that you select to install automatically. No need for an ISO, no need for a torrent.

    Quick and painless. Try it, you'll like it. :)