OpenBSD 3.7 Reviewed 197
busfahrer writes "Jem Matzan has written a review of OpenBSD 3.7 for Newsforge. He talks about their licensing issues, network features, upgrading packages and the new supported architectures."
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
That's it, I'm switching (Score:3, Funny)
Good bye linux, hello obscurity, er, OpenBSD!
Re:Not dead? (Score:4, Funny)
It's now a zombie. Neither dead or alive.
Re:BSD, the history (Score:1, Funny)
Note to moderators and BSD zealots - this is a _joke_.
Re:Why Can't We All Just "Get Along"? (Score:3, Funny)
Just picture a bunch of little BSD Daemon guys killing Stallman and...
Mark
The shot at RMS for the day (Score:4, Funny)
The theme of the OpenBSD 3.7 CD set is The Wizard of Oz, and the cute little CD jacket cartoon strip shows the OpenBSD mascot and friends on a journey to achieve better wireless card drivers. Their adventure takes them to the Emerald City to meet the great and powerful Wizard of OS himself -- an effigy of a crown-wearing penguin. The man behind the curtain turns out to be a Richard Stallman-like character with GNU horns. The characters are disappointed because the Wizard ends up being "all talk -- no action!" So they decide to code the wireless driver by reverse-engineering the device.
Re:Why Can't We All Just "Get Along"? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The shot at RMS for the day (Score:1, Funny)
Just curious, when was the last time Theo wrote a compiler suite capable of e.g building OpenBSD?
That's what I love about the OpenBSD community - the total lack of arrogance.
Re: That's it (Score:3, Funny)
Your mom knows a lot of other things you wouldn't suspect.
Oh, and btw BSD rules. So, you *please* stay away from it. Thanks
(No, I didn't forget the "post anonymously" blah blah)
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Requiem for the FUD [slashdot.org]
Re:Declare your bias, why don't you? (Score:2, Funny)
Fact 2: GPL isn't free enough to allow merging in BSD licensed code.
Fact 3: The purpose of a BSD license is to flip out and kill processes.
BSD licenses can `kill -9` anyone they want! BSD licenses cut off threads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These licenses are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this BSD license who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a packet the BSD license killed the whole town's connection. My friend Mark said that he saw a BSD licenses totally uppercut some kid just because the kid installed GRUB on their router.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!