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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.

2 of 118 comments (clear)

  1. Not like that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Security is something we should get on top of the other features, not with the cost of other features. I am talking about usability and features here.

    Sure, the core OpenBSD software is probably the most secure in the world, but what can you really accomplish with it without getting gray hair. Good for routers and other network appliances, but once you start moving towards application servers and (*gasp*) desktop oriented usage it becomes obvious that OpenBSD is not really fit for the duty. In many areas it is practically where most of the Linux distributions were in the 90s.

    Heck, you can't even select my native keyboard layout without actually creating the mappings manually. Hah!

  2. Re:application security? = fail by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well... The thing is if you're running a jailed version of Firefox on OpenBSD the probability that someone could jailbreak it is really, really low.

    especially since OpenBSD doesn't have jails. Oh, wait, they have fake jails which are implemented in userland and are vulnerable to race conditions and other attacks.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.