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OpenBSD 5.3 Released

Posted by Unknown on from the time-to-dump-core dept.

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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  1. OpenBSD is very cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OpenBSD is very cool. It's amazing what Theo and team have done over the years, and sadly, they don't get the cred they so richly deserve: OpenSSH, OpenBGP, pf, etc., and an awesome operating system that just works out of the box.

    I'm very surprised more has not been done with OpenBSD. If I ran a company of any kind, it would be OpenBSD on the servers and Linux on the desktop. I would trust nothing else on my servers. I've worked with OpenBSD professionally and it's a joy to use an easy, well-documented system.

    Kudos to you, Theo!

  2. my favorites by anarcat · · Score: 5, Informative

    My favorite improvements:

    * OpenSMTPd - can't have too many solid mail servers out there
    * OpenSSH 6.2 - new crypto algorithms and other goodies
    * pf improvements - sloppy state tracking for ICMP
    * relayd and OpenBGPd improvements

    now the question is: how long until those trickle down to sister projects like FreeBSD or Debian/kFreeBSD?

    --
    Semantics is the gravity of abstraction