OpenBSD 4.1 Released

adstro writes to quote from the BSD mailing list: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.1. This is our 21st release on CD-ROM (and 22nd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.1 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system."

Comments

Sad, but predictable

[petrus4]

I notice the usual contemptible morons have come out of the woodwork with the usual trollish garbage that they routinely attach to any article here referring to the BSDs.

I have to ask, Linux users...when are you going to stop making yourselves so easy to hate?

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[ThePhilips]

Targeted at Linux users you say? "If you've been using Linux for a few years and have chosen the command line lifestyle over a gui lifestyle then OpenBSD should interest you." WTF?

BSD is dead. As long as they have the antique command line tools.

Think whatever you want, but I cannot live w/o GNU command line. bash alone isn't sufficient - text-tools, file-tools are also important.

e.g. BSD's moronic find requires directory name - while GNU one picks current directory by default. All GNU tools support --help and --version - try to find common help displaying option in BSD variants. Not that BSD tools helps output is any useful anyway. Also BSD's ps suck big time. The stupid insistence on using 'more' instead of 'less' isn't helping either.

Also, it might surprise you, 'vi' is no more. Everybody had forgotten what it is - for good - and are using 'vim' instead. But the fact remain: BSD has no sane decent text editor preinstalled. Because POSIX 'vi' cannot be called 'sane' nor 'decent'.

GNU tools by themselves are already pretty old - and kind of outdated. BSD tools are just rotten dead. And with them to me whole BSD: kernel is good, shell around it - is dead.

Constructive note. BSD should align themselves with Debian or Gentoo. Yeah, I know BSD was first. But first doesn't mean better - and those who came after BSD had learned on its mistakes - while BSD remained in its slumber. BSD can learn from Debian it's excellent software management facilities (/etc/alternatives is just god send). From Gentoo BSD can learn how to build software easily in a user-friendly fashion: integrating cross compilation, ccache, distcc all for good fast build on any system.