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OpenBSD 4.0 Pre-orders are Available
fuzzyping1 writes "Pre-orders for OpenBSD 4.0 are now available in the online store. Five architectures on three CDs in a soft-shell DVD case. Check out the highlights of OpenBSD 4.0. This new release includes support for many new wireless chipsets, the UltraSPARC III platform, a new load-balancing feature for network trunks, and much, much more."
This is complete and utter bullshit. But not surprising for a post on Slashdot.
The last time I checked out OpenBSD it was glaccially slow. Maybe it's 'secure by default' because by default any IO operations go so slow that the script kidz finish high-school and college and are well on their way towards their doctorate by the time the operation has completed! In benchmarks against linux, freebsd and netbsd openbsd finished dead last, oftentimes crashing before the benchmark was finished! And the ports tree? Ugh, they've got the dubious honor of being the only Free OS which has packages even older than what debian ships by default! NetBSD 4.0-Release features GCC4, what does OpenBSD 4.0 have...gcc3...gcc2?!?!
What a POS. No wonder no one has found any holes in it -right next to no one would use such a steaming pile in a production enviroment!
Actually, OpenSSH, along with Sendmail, tends to be one of the first things I make a point of disabling on any new installation that I make. Every time I read a security alert, they're either talking about one or the other.
I laugh at the idea of giving one thin dime to theo OR his elitist superstructure!
Fuck you Linux lover!
-Raadt
Can somebody using openbsd tell me if they have got their sound card working in it?
I do not want to get left out from hearing my music while using openbsd as a desktop.
Any resources to tweak the sound will be welcome.
If you'd be bothered to read some day, you'd know that the 2.9.5.3 gcc version is for hardware that is not supported by the more recent versions of gcc. The developers of gcc do not support as many platforms as OpenBSD does and thus the OpenBSD developers must either port the gcc to their platforms or use the older gcc version that still supported those hardware versions. OpenBSD uses 3.3.5 of the gcc for most platforms because it's not as dog-fuck slow as gcc 4.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Yet another sickening blow has struck what's left of the Linux community, as a soon-to-be-released report by the independent Commision for Technology Management (CTM) after a year-long study has concluded: Linux is already dead. Here are some of the commission's findings:
.005% of internet servers. This led to Mandrakesoft, makers of another troubled distro, to purchase Connectiva and become Mandriva. However, industry anaylists say that this will not help since Mandriva is already a shell of its former self.
Fact: Linux has balkanized yet again. There are now no less than 140 separate, competing Linux distros, each of which has introduced fundamental incompatibilities with the other distros, and frequently with Unix standards. Average number of developers in each project (except for Redhat and Novell/Suse): fewer than five. Average number of users per project: there are no definitive numbers, but reports show that all projects are on the decline.
Fact: The trivial issue os what to call Linux continues to hound Linux. At a recent Linux conference in San Francisco, a fight broke out between RMS (Richard M. Stallman) who says Linux should be called GNU/Linux and Linus Torvalds who created Linux and says that Linux should be called Linux. This led to a massive barroom style brawl involving at least 150 Linux geeks. The SFPD was called out to break up the melee, and arrested 150 people. It was estimated that at least 2 to 3 times that many were involved in the brawl, but there wasn't enough police on hand to arrest or count all of them. Sixty one people were hospitalized as a result of this brawl, and one person is still in a coma. Another three people had to get their jaws wired shut.
Fact: Linux is plagued by a lack of professionalism. The stereotype of Linux users being fat unwashed dateless geeks who still live in their parents' basements and refuse to shower more than once a month is all too true. The best example of this is RMS who claims to have a "water phobia" and thus rarely bathes. RMS also looks like he has been living in a cave for the last 5 years. In fact, RMS has been arrested twice because he has been mistaken for Osama Bin Laden. While RMS has always been found to not be Osama Bin Laden, it has created a perception of that Linux is the "terrorist operating system". Linus Torvalds has been forced to spend a great deal of time correcting this perception instead of working on the Linux kernel. Alan Cox quit Linux kernel development since he got tired of everyone saying that he was a terrorist.
Fact: There are almost no Connectiva developers left, and its use, according to Netcraft, is down to a sadly crippled
Fact: X.org will not include support for Redhat's Fedora project. The newly formed group believes that Fedora has strayed too far from Unix standards and have become too difficult to support along with other Linux distros and Solaris x86. "It's too much trouble," said one anonymous developer. "If they want to make their own standards, let them doing the porting for us."
Fact: Ubuntu Linux, yet another offshoot of the beleaguered Debian "distro", is already collapsing under the weight of internal power struggles and in-fighting. "They haven't done a single decent release," notes Mark Baron, an industry watcher and columnist. "Their mailing lists read like an online version of a Jerry Springer episode, complete with food fights, swearing, name-calling, and chair-throwing. It also doesn't help that most people think the word, "Ubuntu", is an obscure term for a homosexual orgy." Netcraft reports that Ubuntu Linux is run on exactly 0% of internet servers. An attempt to save Ubuntu by creating a derivative distro called Kubuntu has also failed.
Fact: Debian Linux, which claims to focus on "being free" (whatever that is supposed to mean), is slow, and cannot take advantage of multiple CPUs. "That about drove the last nail in the coffin for Linux use here," said Michael Curry, CTO of Amazon.com. "We took our Debian boxes out to the backyard and sh
I told people to read the Wikipedia articles which explain things clearly enough that even the thickest dullard would be able to understand, so I didn't think I had to make an essay out of it - but yes, I was explicitly saying OpenSSH is developed by OpenBSD, OpenSSH uses OpenSSL, but OpenSSL is developed by OpenSSL.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.