OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World 185
First time accepted submitter tearmeapart writes "A new version of the operating system that most of us would love to love, but probably hardly ever directly use, has been released. As scheduled, release 5.0 brings support for more hardware, network improvements, and OpenSSH 5.9. The links: changelog; download; main 5.0 page; and how to order your OpenBSD products!"
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Re:Install media? (Score:4, Informative)
Not been the case for years, you can download the "install50.iso" image from the mirrors right now.
http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html [openbsd.org]
Example:
http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/i386/install50.iso [bytemark.co.uk]
Re:Install media? (Score:3, Informative)
It was one of their main fundraising abilities - and to be quite honest, they never stopped other people putting together slightly different ISO layouts and going with those. Plus it was trivial to do an install from the tgz themselves.
Re:Not provably secure (Score:4, Informative)
If its security is important to you, you're fully capable of funding your own audit from a third party, either solo or as a group effort. Put together a requirements list, find out a price, and start asking others to chip in until you can afford it.
You're also free to Google for "OpenBSD exploit" and look at all the (very few) results for actual remote exploits.
OpenBSD has always had much more intelligent (secure) default settings for its installed services and packages than Linux or Windows, but I don't administer any OpenBSD boxes regularly myself because its a bit of a pain for day to day patches and updates compared to Linux. There's a trade-off to be made between security and hours available in the week.