OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up

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."

Comments

Re:But I want it now

[Anonymous Coward]

is this still about t-shirts?

Re:It is the most important open source project.

[e9th]

OpenBSD, while is very secure, does owe some, if not a lot, of it's security to security through obscurity.

Security through obscurity? What are you talking about? Name a better documented OS or distro.

New (and not so new) users are well-advised to keep the FAQs bookmarked, but the man pages shipped with the distribution are the most comprehensive I've ever seen. Terse, maybe, but complete, and the developers treat errors/omissions seriously.

Maybe you meant security due to small market share? Don't you think that every wannabe cracker out there wants to make a name for himself by rooting a properly configured OpenBSD box?

Re:It is the most important open source project.

[slimjim8094]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-006.mspx

That's a month ago. Took about two minutes of searching - like I said, it was a month ago so I didn't have to look backwards very far.

Remote code execution on Server 2k3 (all versions), Windows 7, and Server 2k8. Of course, this presupposes that Windows has SMB (hint: yes)

Or do you not consider remote code execution a security issue?

Look. I don't despise Microsoft like most people around here - just a lukewarm pain-in-my-assness. But let's not go pretending that they don't have more holes than Swiss cheese. If you do, you're either too ignorant to comment, or being delibrately obtuse.