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OpenBSD 4.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the humppa-negala dept.

Undeadly Halloween writes, "On October 18th, OpenBSD celebrated its 11th birthday and ten years of punctual biannual releases. Now it's time for OpenBSD 4.0, which includes tons of new drivers for wireless, network, and storage chips. Consider helping the project by buying the new goodies (CD set, t-shirt, poster, Audio CD). And discover what's new and what battles developers must face daily to support new hardware in the traditional interview featuring nearly 20 developers."

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  1. Nice. by JoshJ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good stuff. Hopefully some of those free drivers will get spread around to Linux as well.

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  2. Re:biannual != semiannual by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    From www.openbsd.org:

    The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail) resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project sells to continue our development goals.

    So biannual it is.

  3. The best feature of OpenBSD... by cucucu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    is that it can run Linux executables!

  4. Re:biannual != semiannual by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Just like biweekly, biannual encompasses both meanings, semiannual and biennial. You neglected to note that, in the definition for biannual linked above, biennial is a valid definition for biannual. So "biannual != semiannual" is an incorrect conclusion, as biannual may indeed mean every two years depending on the context.