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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. Congratulations by norbot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Congratulations to the OpenBSD team. BSD is far from dead!

    1. Re:Congratulations by grub · · Score: 4, Informative


      I've used OpenBSD for many years (early 2.x days). Before asking questions on the list it helps to gooooogle and read until your eyes are bleeding. OpenBSD has (IMHO) the best manpages of any *nix system I've ever used. The FAQ and How-Tos on the site are excellent as well.

      I've had a few replies from questions I've answered both on and off-list and the people have always been helpful. That includes the few exchanges I've had with Theo over the years.

      In short: exhaust your reading and searches before asking questions on the lists. The OS is free, but developers' time is limited.

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  2. A site geared towards Linux user, to learn OpenBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This site is geared towards Linux users that want to learn OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd101.com/

  3. Re:Mebbe I should try it some time by QuoteMstr · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Mebbe I should try it some time by menkhaura · · Score: 5, Informative

    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)).

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  5. Re:Mebbe I should try it some time by ArbitraryConstant · · Score: 5, Informative

    > 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?

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  6. Re:KDE version by OmegaBlac · · Score: 5, Informative

    They audit every line of code they ship, including the external stuff they don't write.

    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

  7. Re:Package security? by incripshin · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.