OpenBSD3.4 Shipping

skelley writes "As seen on deadly.org, OpenBSD 3.4 CDs have begin to ship. If you ordered one already, you should see a charge appear on your credit card (if that's how you paid) and you should expect to see your CD in the next few days to week (depending on where you are). The CDs are being shipped from Calgary. This is earlier than expected, but hey ... enjoy it!"

Re:New release, new song

[zulux]

It looks like the FreeBSD people are going to pull in OpenBSD's PF to replace the old and crufty IPF.

( OpenBSD PS was created out of a typical Theo spat with the IPF people - and has gone on to kick IPF's ass. PF is cool! )

Re:New release, new song

[anthonyrcalgary]

I love PF. It beats the crap out of netfilter/ipchains, IPF, and it's almost easier to use than a web interface on a hardware router.

Dunno how happy you'll be with it as a desktop system. My OpenBSD machine lives in the basement crawlspace, and I'm reasonably sure it doesn't have a monitor or keyboard at the moment. I don't know what it's like with a GUI.

Re:New release, new song

[Permission Denied]

I don't think any of the free *nixes are better or worse as desktop systems. They can all compile the same Mozilla, mplayer or whatever and since I'm the type that always tweaks compile-time options instead of using pre-compiled packages, all the *nixes are the same to me desktop-wise. The only real difference is that I don't need to fiddle with alternative ABIs or wrapper scripts to run vmware on Linux or Opera on FreeBSD but that's not that big a deal since any OS can give me a terminal and a decent browser.

I use FreeBSD at home so I can keep up with -CURRENT whereas I stay with -STABLE on the boxes at work. If my nat box at home breaks due to a cvsup, I can just plug a laptop into the dsl modem to deal with some emergency call. Since I hear only good things about pf, I might return to OpenBSD at home since it really can't hurt anything. The only reason I wouldn't use it at work is because I've set up a mostly FreeBSD shop and I don't want my future replacement to find himself with fifteen different OSes to admin.