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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. We are dorks by Work+Account · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well not me because I do not care one bit about point releases for operating system kernels, but you people reading this comment :)

    Honestly though, anyone here not care?

    I personally enjoy UNIX/Linux/Solaris/BSD but to be honest they are all pretty much the same to me as a developer.

    The same utilities exist on all, and generally you just build your code and run your app and that's that.

    Windows I might care about a point release or Service Pack because it might have a new DirectX library to play Everquest or CStrike with, but for these workhorse operating systems I often wonder who cares :)

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  2. Re:When you say "out" by baadger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm relatively new to unix-OS's. I tried almost a dozen Linux distros and ended up getting annoyed with the sheer amount of 'choice'. (Off on a tangent I reckon Windows Vista with umpteen versions could suffer in the same manner).

    I'm used to picking up an OS CD, installing it and having a base to work with that's minimal. No matter what distro of Linux I try I feel like i'm using somebody elses machine, not mine. With FreeBSD I started from scratch installed X, a desktop environment (XFCE) and all my apps. I felt it was a good comprimise between a a Linux distro and Linux from Scratch. The FreeBSD handbook guided me through a kernel recompile with no hassle and everything I needed to get going in the first 2 days. To me this was alot less confusing and worthwhile (in terms of actually learning something) than all the Linux distributions I tried. It's a "Here's how you get going with FBSD" experience as opposed to "Here's your Linux machine, enjoy!" one. It wasn't as satisfying going into the plethora of open source software out there without that.

    Sure there probably are Linux distro's that have package managers as good ad FBSD's ports tree, and FBSD of course owes alot to Linux, but all the time FreeBSD runs everything I try labelled Linux that I try and all the time the OS gives me no hassle, i'm going to keep using it.

    FreeBSD 6.0 is on the way with improved wireless support (apparently) and after the other day's post of FUSE (file system in user space) on Linux I looked it up for FreeBSD..and hey it has FUSE to (i haven't tried it).

    I'd say my FreeBSD/Windows usage is about 70/30 atm, and increasing.