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OpenBSD 4.4 Released
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."
Congratulations to the OpenBSD team. BSD is far from dead!
Something like FreeBSD is very similar to Linux although they lack a good pre-built distro like Ubuntu. Hardware support in Linux is better.
OpenBSD on the other hand performs poorly and is several years behind in certain OS features. In the case of hardware, it's many many years behind Linux (they only relatively recently even got multiple CPU support). Then there is the issue of the many arrogant asses that think they are somehow better than everyone else even though they're basically just off working in some corner in the dark working on already outdated ideas. Of course you find people like that all over but when they run the whole project it can really be a turn-off.
This is not flamebait. I encourage moderators to read the guidelines at http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml
The parent did use "a name" but it was not an insult so much as voicing the consensus judgment of the behavior of the leader of OpenBSD, Theo de Raadt. de Raadt is, in fact, an "arrogant ass[]"; if a moderator thinks this is calling names rather than an accurate description, I encourage that moderator to peruse the history of Slashdot articles about de Raadt, perhaps starting with http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/17/127206
Thank you and let's all try to make Slashdot a better and more interesting place.
No, the UltraSPARC T2 was released in October 2007.
T1s aren't quite three years old yet, and T2s have only been out for just over a year.
Please stand clear of the doors, por favor mantenganse alejado de las puertas
This site is geared towards Linux users that want to learn OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd101.com/
Yes, OpenBSD's performance is behind that of Linux and FreeBSD (which are neck-and-neck.) However, performance is still quite adequate. OpenBSD has a kind of austere simplicity, however, that makes it a pleasure to administer. It certainly has a niche.
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.
Every bit of BSD code that Apple uses is still available from them (either under the original license, or the OSI approved APSL).
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Normally you don't NEED to upgrade it. Set up the device and forget about it, unless there's some type of remote exploit you'll be fine.
The quality of most Linux-oriented code leads to a great deal of time spent porting it to other systems
While I can understand why OSS developers would be content if they can just get their code running on Linux, they do miss out on the debugging opportunities inherent with porting to other systems.
The other aspect is that the OpenBSD team would like to make sure they are not introducing more security holes with the "latest and greatest" from the various projects. Something like KDE or Gnome could be loaded with hard to detect security holes.
A Shadeless room is a brighter room.
CARP. Google upgrades backend stuff all the time, but you never know it. OpenBSD does CARP better than anyone. Try it. I can re-install in less than 10 minutes. Sparc64 or Intel machines. No one is aware as services are still available.
No, they don't, they audit base, not ports.
Let me just point out that PC-BSD's kernel is the very same FreeBSD, nothing related to OpenBSD; let me also just point out that the standard FreeBSD distribution combines the advantages of Gentoo's (customizing the building of packages to your needs or desires) and of Debian (superb dependency tracking, very fast on searches, always up-to-date (if you consider Debian Unstable)).
Stupidity is an equal opportunity striker.
Fellow slashdotter Bill Dog
PC-BSD, like DesktopBSD, is FreeBSD based. Don't confuse FreeBSD and OpenBSD - they share many userspace utilities and their kernels have some common history, but they are not the same OS.
Basically, OpenBSD is the one that is rabid about security - makes great server software.
NetBSD is the ultra-portable one - good for unusual hardware.
FreeBSD has excellent support for commodity hardware. It is the one used to make the user-friendly distros.
There's no place I could be, since I've found Serenity...
> What does Linux take from BSD? All those vendor supplied drivers? The userland? The vast array of high quality filesystems?
The overwhelmingly dominant SSH implementation?
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
I keep seeing this, but it is not entirely correct. According to their own FAQ they do not audit ports or packages to the same degree as the base system. One must assume that the "external stuff" has not been through an audit at all when installing a port/package.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Intro
Yes and don't forget the other three since you're trying to be complete:
DragonFly BSD - clustering (freebsd 4 fork) good for servers.
MirBSD - OpenBSD fork (3.x i think)
MidnightBSD - FreeBSD 6.x fork (although bringing in 7.x features now) Focused on desktop use. Not at PC-BSD usability levels yet.
MidnightBSD: The BSD for Everyone
Spend $20 on a new ethernet card? I used a cheap off-the-shelf realtek on openbsd for years. On a Sun SPARC, no less.
This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
Anonymous cvs access is done over ssh, and the public keys are listed on the OpenBSD website. The ports tree includes checksums, and these are all verified automatically. So if you check the ssh key of the cvs server, all your ports are safe.
As for pre-built packages from FTP, I don't think there's anything in place for verification.
Wasn't that one of the bad guys in "Under Siege: 2"?
Here's the song with lyrics for this release: 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights" http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#44
Apple releases the free code if and when it chooses to, sometimes only after repeated prodding. Apple is very likely going to be on the bad end of a lawsuit regarding GPL violations because there are still versions of XCode that they have never released the GCC source for (XCode 2.5 I think? I don't recall which.)
Apple regards the open source community as a convenience, not as partners.
They don't put it through the same rigorous auditing that goes for the kernel and the core parts, but they do a lot of parameter checks, and run code examination software. Also, because it's somewhat a fringe OS, uses slightly different libraries, and has *very* aggressive security features built into those libraries (StackGhost, ProPolice, W^X, random mmap and PID allocation, etc), they find a larger volume of bugs in multi-platform software as compared to other software projects (they usually submit platform-agnostic bugfixes, but since the maintainer of glibc refuses to implement strlcat and strlcpy, and most of the bugs can't be easily reproduced on more mainstream systems, there is rarely a fix applied upstream).
The upshot of this is that the OpenBSD version of a program is almost never less secure than whatever version Linux distros are putting out, and very often is much more secure, and stable.
man acpithinkpad. man apm.
Yes, it works fine.
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Perhaps you're thinking of another OS? Polipo 0.9.9 was added to the tree on 24 September 2005.