OpenBSD 3.3 Pre-Orders Available 36
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!!"
OpenBSD is getting better and better... (Score:1)
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
Re:OpenBSD is getting better and better... (Score:4, Insightful)
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:4, Interesting)
Re:OpenBSD is getting better and better... (Score:1, Funny)
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.
It's a conspiracy, I tell you! (Score:2)
Re:*BSD is dying (Score:1)
mmm, t-shirts (Score:1, Funny)
It can't be as good as Linux! (Score:2)
Seriously, I'm sure it will turn out to be a great release, but I'll wait just a little bit.
Re:It can't be as good as Linux! (Score:1)
Hmmm, I might just try it now... (Score:1)
Alpha is Dying (Score:2, Informative)
So what (Score:1)
OpenBSD Rocks (Score:2)
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
Re:OpenBSD Rocks (Score:1)
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
Re:OpenBSD Rocks (Score:2)
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.
Re:OpenBSD Rocks (Score:2)
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...
Re:OpenBSD Rocks (Score:1)
That's intersting.
What kind of interfaces are those ?
How many aliases ?