OpenBSD 4.0 Released

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."

Comments

Re:biannual != semiannual

[smithberry]

Are you sure about that?

See for instance http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid =Mozilla-search&va=Biannual+ which says biannual means "occurring twice a year" compare with biennial http://www.webster.com/dictionary/biennial+ "occurring every two years"

heh

[ArbitraryConstant]

Turns out a specialized OS for a small number of users often ends up being something that can't be easily replaced. PF has availability features no one outside of Cisco can match, and they can't match them for what it costs us to use OpenBSD for the job.

For example, our Internet connection at work is managed by OpenBSD. If I rebooted our firewall, no one would notice, because the backup would kick in and it would preserve state for everything, even pre-existing TCP connections. You could be streaming music and it wouldn't even skip. How can I do that with Linux again?

"I can't run any of the stuff I need to run under OpenBSD, so why the heck should I even care about it?"

Hm. Whenever I have that problem, I just download the Linux version and run it under binary emulation.