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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."
They audit every line of code they ship, including the external stuff they don't write. It is one of the most secure operating system distributions because of this policy.
As long as bash is not default shell, less is not default pager and VIM is not default text editor - I'm NOT interested.
I'm working 99% of time in command line and *BSD archaic tools are not really helping to make the switch from Linux.
And find doesn't search by default in current directory. And grep isn't recursive.
And, for **** sake, where is POSIX conformance statement??? Even Linux man pages (more or less all of them) have by now info how does/doesn't particular tool/call conform to POSIX.
As much as I wanted to try BSDs, unfortunately, most of them (OpenBSD included) remain kind of toy for basement kids who do not know anything better.
Mod me down folks, but here is my advice: if you are serious into *nix - as user or developer - pick Linux.
*BSD might be true Unix, but this is not something to be particularly proud of, as Unix has history of being worst platform for both users and developers.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.