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OpenBSD 3.9 Released

Posted by Hemos on from the free-willy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 3.9 was released this morning and is now available for download from the OpenBSD mirror sites. Among the new features is integrated framework for monitoring hardware sensors, a BSD licensed driver for nvidia nforce ethernet, and loads of new drivers and bug fixes. Of course you can still purchase the CD-ROM set which includes support for five platforms: i386, amd64, macppc, sparc, sparc64, and also includes the complete blob free source tree and prebuilt packages for many architectures. As always your contributions help to continue the devlopment of this great opeating system."

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  1. Rock Solid Already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually the CDs have been shipped for those that preordered, I got mine a couple fo weeks ago. The best thing, it just installs like a dream. I tried setting it up inside a VMware Workstation, took all of about 5 minutes from the CD.

    I also made my first donation to OpenBSD for a long time, to keep it going, since I use OpenSSH every day, infact my job depends on it.

  2. Torrents! by Gandalf360 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before the weight of the collective slashdot effect kills the main BSD servers, check out the bit torrents that are located here: http://openbsd.somedomain.net/

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  3. Re:Not to disagree with you... by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not to disagree ith you but I'm a longtime Ubuntu user (since Jan 2005) and I'd like to ask: what, among the things you've listed, couldn't have been done without Linux?

    Go to the Ubuntu packages pages & search for openbsd Two pages of results! And that's barely scrathing the surface.

    Furthermore, as someone else in this thread mentions, openBSD audits their code more thoroughly prior to inclusion in their system. Many packages used in Ubuntu (apache, x.org, etc etc etc) have bug fixes contributed back from the openBSD port.

    You're thinking I'm saying that openBSD can do something linux can't - I'm not really, its more like openBSD is the cranky old uncle of the free-unix family, telling all the youngsters to lock their doors & not walk around at night :-)

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  4. Re:Not to disagree with you... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This article, covering the release of 3.9 includes some discussion of the ways in which users of other operating systems benefit from the continued health of the OpenBSD project, including the views of one of the OpenBSD devs.

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