OpenBSD 5.3 Released

An anonymous reader writes "Today, OpenBSD 5.3 has been released. It has many improvements, updates, and new stuff. Also, OpenSMTPD 5.3 is included. This is the first version of OpenSMTPD considered to be ready for production. Many pre-built packages are available for many architectures. OpenBSD 5.3 ships with various Desktop Environments, including Gnome 3.6, KDE 3.5, and XFCE 4.10." And don't forget the release song, "Blade Swimmer."

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Re:The sure seem mad...

[BitZtream]

so far all I see is a bunch of catchy tunes, and there butthurt jealousy of Linux's popularity, meanwhile complaining about how some distros have non-free firmware, and how unfree the GPL, along with some prophesizing about how OpenBSD is going to take over the world. Then some bashing of RMS as a hypocrit.

Show me where Theo tells about OBSD taking over the world, I'm fairly positive thats exactly the opposite of his goals. Otherwise, it seems more like your statement is you projecting your own feelings on openbsd. RMS is not a hypocrite, just a fucking douche you're too stupid to recognize as using you to further his own political agenda.

What they miss is the only reason that either RedHat, or IBM, or SuSE call what they sell "linux" and various distros are vaugely compatible with each other is because of the GPL.

What you call 'vaguely' compatible, the rest of us call a joke. Its why no commercial vendors put real effort into targeting Linux, because what you call compatible, real developers call 'a fucking mess with no organization'. Distros BARELY remain compatible with the 'standard linux base', all of them come with random versions of libraries and different sets, in different places, effectively making the only common aspect amoung them to be names like Linux and GPL.

There are plenty of proprietary BSD-based OSs with their code. Mabey if the GPL'd back in the 1990s, people would using "MacBSD" instead of OSX or iOS. I am sorry but the BSD license is self-defeating, and they worked their way to oblivion, despite putting in undeniable hard work.

No, we wouldn't have MacBSD if it was GPL, we'd have something else not compatible at all. BSD did EXACTLY WHAT WAS INTENDED here, it allowed a commercial OS to use a common code base. THIS MEANS COMPATIBILITY. You don't get any more compatible than actually running the exact same code. This is why your shitty little fanboy OS actually can talk to a windows box, because ... everyone ... used .... BSD code ... for networking.

What we have now is ... Mac(h)/BSD ... so basically, we got what you said we would have got with GPL ... without GPL ... BSD also got a metric fuckton of code in return. You pretty much picked 'the example' that is used to disprove your retarded 'BSD doesnt' get contributions back' argument as Apple has given back arguably more than they took in the first place.

The Internet as you know it would not exist if it weren't for BSD. We would most likely still be arguing over which network vendor was the mostest awesomest and still not have systems that talk to each other in a common way. At best there would be the half implemented GPL version that everyone says is fucking awesomer than awesome ... but no one uses but a handful of geeks because some moron thinks that using vi to edit config files is acceptable, and god forbid how evil it is for a company to use your code without you immediately getting access to all of their work as well. Thats pretty fucking hypocritical. You call it 'free', you wouldn't knwo free if it hit you in the ass.

In the linux sphere, we made the corporations who enter give back. So yes, Linux go the devs and is now the most advanced Free UNIX clone, in part because we have 100x the devs working on it, and more people basing their projects on Linux, because of this.

No, you didn't. You don't even realize it. Its not the most advanced on several levels, ZFS being a prime example but certainly not the only example. How advanced can you be when you have a political ideology making decisions which should be based on technical merit? It IS NOT a 'free' UNIX clone, you don't even know what the word means. UNIX is a specification that Linux does not meet. It is not a clone. It doesn't work tha