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.

Comments

huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why isn't this in the bsd.slashdot.org section?

hmm?

[Timothy Brownawell]

/me is curious why this article is displayed as abbreviated while the gNewSense article is displayed as full text.

Re:hmm?

[Chandon Seldon]

For exactly the opposite reason from what you'd probably expect. Flame Wars = Ad views, and Slashdot has been working for years to create an atmosphere where RMS's concept of "free software" is flame war material. gNewSense article = "free software" flame war. OpenBSD is just a solid OS, and therefore triggers no flame war (except when Theo starts one - those always get full articles).

Re:A bad song?

[Chandon Seldon]

You're not going to get anywhere by complaining about flame wars between the OpenBSD guys, the GNU guys and the Linux guys. They disagree, and all three groups have people with forcible personalities and no reason not to start a flame war. RMS was asking for it this time. Linus was asking for it last time. Theo was asking for it the time before that.

All of these groups create very solid software - and creating a modern free OS distribution currently requires software from at least two of the groups (gcc and OpenSSH are in everything these days). I see no downside to letting them continue to flame each other - it hasn't slowed any of them down in the 7+ years I've been watching them do it.