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OpenBSD 4.4 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the fresh-daemons dept.

Linux blog writes "The new version of OpenBSD is available for download. There are lots of nifty new features to try out including OpenSSH 5.1 with chroot(2) support, Xenocara, Gnome 2.20.3, KDE 3.5.8, etc. Machines using the UltraSPARC IV/T1/T2 and Fujitsu SPARC64-V/VI/VII are now supported. It seems amazing to me that they keep delivering these new results on a six-month release cycle."

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  1. Mebbe I should try it some time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How does BSD compare to linux? Other than the whole take what you can give nothing back vibe?

    1. Re:Mebbe I should try it some time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      It doesn't have that vibe at all. If anything, Linux takes way more from BSD than the other way around, due to Linux's selfish black whole of a license sucking everything in.

    2. Re:Mebbe I should try it some time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Linux doesn't take anything from BSD. Everything in Linux is free for BSD to use as long as the code stays free, ie under the GPL. While if apple takes code from BSD, you will never see that code again.

  2. Re:Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What's BSD?

  3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Elegy For *BSD

    I am a *BSD user
    and I try hard to be brave
    That is a tall order
    *BSD's foot is in the grave.

    I tap at my toy keyboard
    and whistle a happy tune
    but keeping happy's so hard,
    *BSD died so soon.

    Each day I wake and softly sob
    Nightfall finds me crying
    Not only am I a zit faced slob
    but *BSD is dying.

  4. Re:Congratulations by tedu_again · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    By wasting people's time with worn out questions, you are being an asshole.

  5. Re:Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's why you use FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD. All the advantages (plus some others), with none of the crap.