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OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World
First time accepted submitter tearmeapart writes "A new version of the operating system that most of us would love to love, but probably hardly ever directly use, has been released. As scheduled, release 5.0 brings support for more hardware, network improvements, and OpenSSH 5.9. The links: changelog; download; main 5.0 page; and how to order your OpenBSD products!"
...no but srsly, OpenBSD is not actually a giant blowfish out to destroy our cities.
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.-rms
link to the 5.0 song, art and lyrics.
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#50
it is recommended best practice to play the correct release song while upgrading your openbsd.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Not been the case for years, you can download the "install50.iso" image from the mirrors right now.
http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html
Example:
http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/i386/install50.iso
It was one of their main fundraising abilities - and to be quite honest, they never stopped other people putting together slightly different ISO layouts and going with those. Plus it was trivial to do an install from the tgz themselves.
I think they offer a free "net install" CD, and many others have put together offline install versoins.
But yeah, that's the OpenBSD way - they sell the One True Install media to ensure you're getting a pristine copy and not something potentially hacked up with hidden vulnerabilities and such. After all, OpenBSD is about security - and having a way to distribute unmodified CDs is quite hard.
If you're testing, fine, netinstall or "unofficial offline install" CDs and DVDs work. But if you're wanting a secure installation, you probably sould buy the official blessed media.
So it's not corrupted by the utter crap that is Gnome 3 and Unity? SIGN ME UP.
It is crazy to think that shipping gnome 2.32, OpenBSD 5.0 has become much more desktop-friendly than Ubuntu.
I can't decide whether to mod you "funny", "insightful", "flamebait", or "sad".
Maybe we need an "all of the above" category.
Why is this news on the main page?
Because OpenBSD matters?
Ubuntu 11.10 is out too and Windows 8 will be out soon!
... as compared to them.
In other news, Kim Kardashian got divorced after 72 days!
Who?
Seriously, I didn't know they'd released a new version, and I was just wondering what I should do with a presently mothballed system I have. Now, I can build an OpenBSD sandbox to play with. Woohoo! :-)
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
From the Distrowatch site, looks like the list of destops supported by BSD include AfterStep, Blackbox, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce. And as CarsonChittom pointed out below, it's offering 2 choices of KDE - 3.5.10 and 4.4.5. Chances are that when their Gnome 3.2 is ready, it'll be offered alongside 2.32. My favorite aspect - it offers both AfterStep & WindowMaker - two GNUSTEP based DEs.
As an aside, even Firefox 3.5.19 and 3.6.18 are included. As well as version 5 - thay ain't up to 7.x as yet.
Linux distros would do well to do what the BSDs do - offer a wide choice of desktops, so that everyone can pick their own w/ minimum heartburn. All 3 BSDs - Open, Free & Net offer the wide choice of desktops. Wonder how widespread is the driver support for OBSD, particularly for Wi-Fi?
If its security is important to you, you're fully capable of funding your own audit from a third party, either solo or as a group effort. Put together a requirements list, find out a price, and start asking others to chip in until you can afford it.
You're also free to Google for "OpenBSD exploit" and look at all the (very few) results for actual remote exploits.
OpenBSD has always had much more intelligent (secure) default settings for its installed services and packages than Linux or Windows, but I don't administer any OpenBSD boxes regularly myself because its a bit of a pain for day to day patches and updates compared to Linux. There's a trade-off to be made between security and hours available in the week.
- Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)
You should... you aren't forced to use GNOME or KDE (I use sctrotwm), and I can run gimp, vlc, mplayer, libreoffice (or openoffice.org, because choice=freedom). Most all of the software you use is available on OpenBSD, and if not, the ports system is pretty easy to use to create software ports and packages in OpenBSD.
plus, as long as you do your homework before posting something to the list, you'll generally get some great people to help you...
It's all damned lies and statistics!! I mean 47% of all people use statistics to back up their arguments.
So we should all realize that OpenBSD is overrated. Because you said so.
You misunderstood.
You have always been able to download an .ISO, install OpenBSD over the net, etc. Although I give money to the OpenBSD guys, I have always just downloaded an .ISO from openbsd.org and installed with it.
You can get all the packages, ports, sources, binaries - everything - over the net.
Now, they do sell ISOs that have all the packages on them. If you want that, yes, you do have to pay it. That is explicitly stated as a fundraising method for the project. It wasn't "one of the authors" - it is the project lead, Theo.
Yes, it is slightly more convenient to have all the packages in one set of ISOs. But you can download the install ISO and get packages from the net, or download all the packages and put them on DVDs yourself, or host your own repository yourself, or whatever you want. The only reason to buy the pre-packaged CD set is because you like OpenBSD and want to support the project financially (and you get some stickers, etc.)
BSD's license is far more permissive than Linux, btw. There's really no way they can thwart.
Advice: on VPS providers
They're actually far ahead in some areas. WiFi is a breeze to setup compared to some Linux distros. And they really do aim for extreely high standards (i.e. POSIX) compliance. The other area that's outstanding is the documentation. Most *commercial* products don't have the level of quality the openbsd documentation has.
There you go, raising that tired old misconception that the only security work OpenBSD team did was to "secure the base install only". Why don't you educate yourself on its architecture, its security libraries and softwares, and how the OS protects against privilege escalation and execution of malicious code. Why not learn why the OpenBSD filesystem is more robust than most? Then you can discuss real shortcomings (yes I know some, but they're not anything you mentioned) instead of aping same old nonsense that gets raised every six months.
How strange, OpenBSD even gives you option of automatic disk partition layout, they'll do it for you! on a DHCP network with typical desktop PC you could take defaults all the way except for providing root password and any username/password you want through the install, and have a bootable system in less than ten minutes. It's faster than installing typical GNU/Linux or Unix, that's for sure.