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OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World

Posted by timothy on from the sir-this-encryption-appears-nearly-unbreakable dept.

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!"

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  1. obligatory by nimbius · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.
  2. Re:Install media? by Richard_at_work · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

  3. Re:Wow! KDE 3.5 and Gnome 2.3 .... by AdamJS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So it's not corrupted by the utter crap that is Gnome 3 and Unity? SIGN ME UP.

  4. Re:Wow! KDE 3.5 and Gnome 2.3 .... by cachimaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is crazy to think that shipping gnome 2.32, OpenBSD 5.0 has become much more desktop-friendly than Ubuntu.

  5. Re:Wow! KDE 3.5 and Gnome 2.3 .... by Medievalist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's Linux, direct from 2005!

    So it's not corrupted by the utter crap that is Gnome 3 and Unity? SIGN ME UP.

    I can't decide whether to mod you "funny", "insightful", "flamebait", or "sad".

    Maybe we need an "all of the above" category.

  6. Re:Not provably secure by MikeBabcock · · Score: 3, Informative

    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)
  7. Re:Not provably secure by Uberbah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only reasons we think OpenBSD is secure are:

    1) OpenBSD supporters said so.

    So we should all realize that OpenBSD is overrated. Because you said so.