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OpenBSD 4.5 Released

Posted by timothy on from the belts-and-suspenders-and-guns-and-mines dept.

portscan writes "OpenBSD 4.5 has been released. New and extended platforms include sparc64, and added device drivers. OpenSSH 5.2 is included, plus a number of tweaks, bugfixes, and enhancements. See the announcement page for a full list. OpenBSD is a security-oriented UNIX/BSD operating system." As per OpenBSD tradition, of course there's a song.

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  1. oh goody by kv9 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NetBSD 5 yesterday, OpenBSD 4.5 today and a three day weekend ahead.

    *fap*

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  2. Re:Not like that... by ld+a,b · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's totally unlike MINIX. MINIX is a hobby OS that only works and has perfect security in the author's mind. OpenBSD is used in production where security matters and on real hardware.

    I am willing to claim that OpenBSD is more than comfortable for its intended use in routers and servers.
    OpenBSD doesn't use GUI config tools, and complex package managers, but that is because they are not needed. It is simple and elegant like that.

    It has some rough edges like the lack of utf-8 support in the base system and utilities but it isn't bad as a Desktop OS either, most desktop applications don't use libc for their encoding support anyways.

    My home server and my laptop both run OpenBSD and I don't miss your real OSes at all. After all whatever I cannot do easily in OpenBSD Linux does through binary blobs and proprietary software. At that point I could be as well running Windows 7.

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  3. Old, but scrutinized. That's the point. by geekmux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A version of KDE that no longer gets any love from upstream; old Firefox, old Thunderbird. Hopefully there are security updates for the latter two and that someone is giving some TLC to the former.

    OpenBSD is on a 6-month development release, and remember the auditing and code-screening that goes into each release. Patches for these "optional" packages (OBSD default install primary use is a stripped down server environment) can be updated immediately. Just like any other installer, there WILL be updates available, even on day 1.

  4. Re:application security? = fail by Lord+Ender · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who cares if your browser is jailed? Someone who owns your browser also owns your online banking, stock trading, webmail... you get the picture.

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