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OpenBSD 4.7 Released
An anonymous reader writes "The release of OpenBSD 4.7 was announced today. Included in this release are support for more wireless cards, the loongson platform, pf improvements, many midlayer filesystem improvements including a new dynamic buffer cache, dynamic VFS name cache rewrite and NFS client stability fixes, routing daemon improvements including the new MPLS label distribution protocol daemon (ldpd) and over 5,800 packages. Please help support the project by ordering your copy today!"
Perhaps every Ubuntu release story should have a link to a site titled "The Unusability of Ubuntu." Seems fair, doesn't it? The article would necessarily have to be negative... title non-withstanding. Slashdot has turned seriously hostile to non-Linux open source operating systems. I'm not sure why. I've even heard people here use the classic, "nobody uses it, so it must be bad" argument - the same one Windows users make about Linux.
The difference between the OpenBSD community and the Apple community is that the OpenBSD folks know what they are doing. I'm not trying to troll here, but Theo is an asshole, and the exact type of person that I want developing my kernel. His know-it-all attitude and demand for "not-created-here" things to gtfo led to the development of things like OpenSSH. I like the OpenBSD coding style and best-practices in addition to how they audit and analyze their code; more than any feature this is paramount in selecting software for us.
OpenBSD has fewer kernel panics than 2.6.xx.xx and for network tasks has better performance for us.
Again, kudos to the OpenBSD team for another release.
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Uhm... Yeah.
Why use a cheap arm toaster that can be set up in 5 minutes when you can give CISCO a few thousand dollars for a piece of shit?
Because that toaster doesn't provide real support and next-day RMA service. You might work in a small shop, but for people who run multiple datacenters, 100s or 1000s of network devices, and whose jobs rely on uptime this is a no-brainer. I'll take the appliance with the service guarantee, replacements, and track record over a few Dells with *nix running on them.
You are not allowed to replace a $10000 router with a $100 redundant array of consumer hardware because it would make your boss look bad.
I can see why you posted AC. You're out of your depth. Cisco may churn out some real crapware ancillary platforms sometimes, but when it comes to core routing and switching on the big chassis, they're pretty damned reliable.