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OpenBSD 3.3 Pre-Orders Available 36

Posted by michael from the be-a-good-consumer dept.
CoryBenny writes "The OpenBSD project has just started taking pre-orders for its 3.3 release. This release contains the new pro-police stack protection and lots of other new features! The OpenBSD Journal are running a story here. Pre-orders can be made here and just check out their cool new t-shirts!!"
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  • I started running OpenBSD on my some of my servers about two years ago, and I like the fact that I don't have to go around hunting for patches all the time to continue securing the systems.

    This is, of course, directly contrary to the experience I am now having Windows 2000-based systems (which are running SQL Server 2000) that I help manage, where over the last few weeks I had more patches to put on the system then I could remember, with the associated reboots and downtime as well.

    I look forward to the in
    • I look forward to the increased stability and security the new stack protection offers

      I think you'll enjoy a whole lot more security, but I wouldn't be surprised if the stack protection ended up costing a little stability for a while. The stack protection reveals a whole lot of "usually harmless" bugs in other projects, and until this excellent tool is in more users' hands, OpenBSD users may have to bear the burden of discovery for a while.

      I wouldn't rush to be the first to put the new release on a critical server machine, but if you're a user who wants to give something back, then now's an excellent time. Get current on OpenBSD, see if any of your favorite apps show stack violations, and let the authors of those apps know ASAP!

    • Re:OpenBSD is getting better and better... (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      This is, of course, directly contrary to the experience I am now having Windows 2000-based systems

      It's pretty ridiculous to compare the two. OpenBSD is intended to secure your data and networks. Windows 2000 is intended to secure your employment by making you indespensible. Apples and oranges.

      • Afraid of getting laid off? Facing budget cuts? Deploy Windows. (I also recommend Exchange and Outlook.)
      • Self-employed or otherwise a major stockholder? Are you personally held responsible for successes and
  • Hmm, they have shirts for 3.0, 3.2, and 3.3. What the hell, I really liked the 3.1 artwork. Oh well, bow to Theo's wishes and all that.

  • mmm, t-shirts (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Oh, they make an OS too?
  • After all, it's only up to 3.3!

    Seriously, I'm sure it will turn out to be a great release, but I'll wait just a little bit.
  • The new stack protection is making me seriously consider openBSD. I've looked at it for awhile, I haven't used it because I've been concerned about the lack of availablity of different patches for the kernel. I use grsecurity for my kernels, but now that they have the major feature I enjoy from grsecurity (the stack protection) I think I'll have to give it a try. I've heard about binary compatibility with linux, how far does this go? Anyone able to shed a little insight for me on how well this works?

  • Alpha is Dying (Score:2, Informative)

    by evilviper ( 135110 )
    OpenBSD confirms, the Alpha is dying... Alpha is no t included on the OpenBSD 3.3 CDs, as it was on every previous set of CDs released.

  • You want to hear a story about confidence in your system?

    I ran an internal OpenBSD web server / CVS repository / Slashdot-like chat area. It was on an old Sparc20 I scrounged up.

    I got the opportunity to travel, for four months, to literally the exact opposite side of the planet earth from where I live. What did I do with my server?

    I didn't do anything! I packed my bags and took off! Did I give anyone root? Nope. Did I give anyone instructions on what to do? Nope. Did I get a backup sysadmi


    • Did you really ?

      Seems like a pretty rocket science to me.

      Except I can do the same thing with my slackware boxes (boxen if you prefer). And I have some boxes with much more then 1 CPU.

      Cheers

    • What if the hardware had failed? Linux can be made that stable (though it is more likely to be vulnerable to crackers...) but harddrives are still mechanical and crash randomly from time to time. You go luckly that time, but what about next trip?

      Sure you can go with RAID and the like, but even still you need provisions for dealing with broken hardware. OpenBSD doen'st run when there is no harddrive.

    • whenever i see a post like yours i'm always reminded of an old firewall we had:

      bash-2.03$ uname -a
      OpenBSD sucky 2.6 GENERIC#696 i386
      bash-2.03$ uptime
      8:28PM up 485 days, 20:12, 2 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.08, 0.08
      bash-2.03$ ifconfig -A | grep inet | wc -l
      37

      all this in 8 megs of ram, 500mb hard drive (which turned out to have died long ago when we rebooted the box to take it away on its 500th day of uptime) and handled web traffic and redirection with up to 3gb outgoing traffic a day...

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