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OpenBSD 4.3 Released
An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 4.3 is now available! Released today, May 1, 2008, 4.3 introduces many new improvements and upgrades. The complete changelog is here. Torrents can be found here." As usual, this release is accompanied by a song.
Why isn't this in the bsd.slashdot.org section?
Just so that's out of the way.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
/me is curious why this article is displayed as abbreviated while the gNewSense article is displayed as full text.
Here's the tracker - http://openbsd.somedomain.net/
Most popular architectures appear to be i386, amd64, and sparc64.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
I deserved +6 insightful and you know it!
A nice article regarding the new developments of 4.3
I've always liked the idea of OpenBSD but stuck with Linux because OpenBSD ISO images are so hard to find. IIRC, they do this on purpose.
It's a pity, because I've contributed new features and bug fixes to at least 10 open source Linux/Windows/NOT-bsd projects, and OpenBSD has received none of that benefit.
Everyone should click on the picture of their 'new rack' in the lower right of the page.
Looks like some truly ancient hardware... are those SS-20s?
Note: the torrents linked to are unofficial torrents, not produced by the OpenBSD team. Wouldn't such a thing be a perfect vector to introduce a backdoor in an OpenBSD system? I'm not saying that is what is going on, but forewarned is forearmed. If you want to make an ISO, you might be better rolling one on your own, or better yet, supporting the OpenBSD community by buying a CD set from them.
Everyone knows it, netcraft confirms it, BSD is dying.
That song is fascinating. I didn't realize that BSD zealots are so frothing-at-the-mouth-opposed to the FSF. It is very interesting (and sad) that they would spend so much time denouncing the GPL and Linux than they do talking about their own stuff.
Yes, but does it run Linux?
The song accompanying the distribution is against GNU licensing. The previous song were not against free software, there were funny, and against BLOB, lack of support from hardware vendors, etc. I don't see the interest in hitting other free (as in speech) project. OK, there was the problem of relicensing of a driver for the Linux kernel, but they should begin to work together instead of beginning a war.
Insightful!
Now, Ivan Russian Programmer will make most valuable contributions to project. Hoorah!
Many people think that OpenBSD is an operating system development project. In reality, OpenBSD is a trolling project that just happens to produce an OS as a happy side effect.
I just checked the changelog. it looks like they caved and fixed the DNS/PRNG issue.
Kudos to my favorite OS people for the reliability of their SMP code for sparc64. I can finally make use of all these servers! cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+ (rev 2.2) @ 1056 MHz cpu0: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 64K data (32 b/l), 8192K external (512 b/l) cpu1 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+ (rev 2.2) @ 1056 MHz cpu1: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 64K data (32 b/l), 8192K external (512 b/l) -a