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

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:hmm?

[incripshin]

Yeah, I'm tired of hearing about every alpha/beta/rc that nubuntu comes out with. The BSD developers do far more work than the people working on the linux distros.

Torrents are Available

[nebulous_afterthough]

Here's the tracker - http://openbsd.somedomain.net/
Most popular architectures appear to be i386, amd64, and sparc64.

Re:Oblig

[kellyb9]

Did you ever think that FreeBSD is so stable, many of the users don't post?

Re:none for me, thanks

[BobNET]

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.

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/install43.iso (replace with address and path to your nearest mirror and architecture where appropriate)

Re:Oblig

[Anonymous Coward]

If BSD dies, it will really be a bad day, since I'll be forced to run my servers with shitty, bloated code that is riddled with security problems (you guys call it Linux, if I recall correctly). Obligatory "the difference between BSD and Linux users is that BSD users get laid and Linux people are fat creepy nerds with no life" joke goes here.

Re:A bad song?

[urcreepyneighbor]

but they should begin to work together instead of beginning a war. Get your facts straight. Hell, get some facts - at least.

We didn't start shit.

We're just ending the war with style, baby. ;)

Re:Obligatory "Run Linux" post

[BobNET]

Yes, but does it run Linux?

Yes.

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.

Re:Oblig

[Just Some Guy]

Great! FreeBSD is grown a lot lately, the default installation is over 800 MB.

Dang! At current prices, that'll cost me nearly 14 cents. That's just unacceptable.

Sarcasm aside, I think FreeBSD long ago gave up any pretense of being a minimal OS. There's nothing at all wrong with that goal, but FreeBSD's target hardware is larger servers.