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OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up

Posted by timothy on from the so-you're-in-favor-then? dept.

badger.foo writes "The OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are up. That means the release is done, sent off to CD production, and snapshots will turn -current again. Order now and you more likely than not will have your CD set, T-shirt or other cool stuff before the official release date. You get the chance to support the most important free software project on the planet, and get your hands on some cool playables and wearables early. The release page is still being filled in, but the changelog has detailed information about the goodies in this release."

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  1. Is ugrading OpenBSD still kind of a mess? by flydpnkrtn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    See the upgrade guide for upgrading 4.5 to 4.6... it's a 280 line upgrade guide:
    http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade46.html
     
    ...on RedHat and CentOS, to go from RHEL 5.3 to RHEL 5.4 I did "yum -y update". That's it.

    Can we get there with OpenBSD? At my current place of employment we were using OpenBSD, but the upgrade process was an argument that was made (by other members of my team) to move to RHEL...

    --
    Here's to the crazy ones
  2. Re:It is the most important open source project. by alexandre_ganso · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Any PC that is new enough to still be running its original power supply can run some incarnation of Windows 7.

    You forget the fact that windows 7 screwed with drivers severely. We have seven different generations of computers in my department bought through the last thee years (it were several smaller university departments that were joined together, that's the reason of so many purchases), from 3-year hp desktops to 6-month asus notebooks.

    NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM has all the drivers required for normal operation. You name it: 512mb radeon video cards which run with no 3d, no network, no wifi (my personal machine had 3 different wireless adapters tested, no go), on the portables not even the sound cards and webcams work! And they don't accept vista drivers either.

    Amazingly, on several of those machines, as a joke we tested mac os x hackintosh, just to see how it goes. And the hackintosh performed better out-of-box than windows 7. No need to say that ubuntu recognized everything from the start.

    So, we are still on windows XP and vista on the newer notebooks.