OpenBSD 5.4 Released 102
An anonymous reader writes "The release of OpenBSD 5.4 has been announced. New and notable advancements include new or extended platforms like octeon and beagle, moving VAX to ELF format, improved hardware support including Kernel Mode Setting (KMS), overhauled inteldrm(4), experimental support for fuse(4), reworked checksum handling for network protocols, OpenSMTPD 5.3.3, OpenSSH 6.3, over 7,800 ports, and many other improvements and additions."
Re:But ... (Score:5, Informative)
OpenBSD Rocks. (Score:5, Informative)
Rather than slagging OpenBSD, set up a small VM and try it there for a while. It's a fantastic OS, I use it on my gateway/firewall/VPN, other edge-facing devices and a llaptop.
It's a bit minimal but what you get works.
Re:OpenBSD Rocks. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:OpenBSD Rocks. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:OpenBSD Rocks. (Score:5, Informative)
I'd suggest starting here as a beginning: 9 - Migrating to OpenBSD [openbsd.org]
One thing I find OpenBSD is head and shoulders above other *nix OSs at: the documentation. Virtually every service, binary, config, library,
Everything fits very well together (as is also the case with FreeBSD and NetBSD). All the OpenBSD users could post replies to your question but the only way to see for yourself is to try it out.
Enjoy!
Re:OpenBSD Rocks. (Score:5, Informative)
I have this truly bizarre UltraSparc laptop. The only two operating systems which will support it are Solaris, obviously, and OpenBSD. Solaris was extremely sluggish whereas OpenBSD with Awesome is quite spry.
Linux on my servers, NO WAY. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:OpenBSD Rocks. (Score:2, Informative)
You mean like ASLR, drive encryption, stack canaries, W^X? None of these were invented there but they were common and integrated into OpenBSD long before any Linux.