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OpenBSD 2.5 released 47

Posted by Hemos from the come-and-get-it dept.
Chris Frost writes "As found on OpenBSD's website today (www.openbsd.org), "The current release of OpenBSD is 2.5 which started shipping May 19, 1999." Not sure what calendering method was used to calculate this and then post, but nonetheless OpenBSD 2.5 has been released. "
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  • slashdot ignoring ppc linux (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    why is slashdot posting all these articles about dists, but has totally ignored the ppc linux developers' release 1.0? it's what ALL new redhat ppc dists are based on. isn't that AT LEAST as news worthy as the new bsd dists?? seems to me that slashdot is very x86 centric and rarely has anything about other archs unless it's stories about their demise, such as the false mklinux death story. note that freshmeat DID carry the news of DRR1.0
    LinuxPPC Reference Release 1.0 [crashing.org]

  • Been asked b4 (Score:5)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 19, 1999 @06:03AM (#1887271)
    If you go to each website separately and look under goals or something like that, you'll see what each emphasizes.

    Nevertheless, it goes like this:

    FreeBSD: concentrates on x86, so it is th fastest on x86, ports to Alpha (somewhat working) and Sparc (not working) underway. has good VM system, good under high load. Easiest to install and use.

    NetBSD: Concentrates on being a stable research platform. Their big thing is portability, supports lots and lots of hardware platforms.

    OpenBSD: forked from NetBSD, supports lots of hardware platforms. Big emphasis on security, has bunch of integrated encryption. A no brainer if you REALLY NEED security.

  • Just so that no one thinks I was crazy when pasing the info on to /.: I posted this [late] yesterday, noticing that it "had" been released today. :)

    Everyone interested, go by and buy a cd!
  • I've been looking all over the ftp for awhile now, and to no avail. Perhaps I'm not looking hard enough. Could you be a bit more specific? =)

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  • Those police "To Serve and Protect" T-Shirts are very nice! Why aren't there T-Shirts that cool for Linux?
    :(

  • T-shirts too (Score:3)

    by Temperance ( 1245 ) <rogoyski@ya h o o . com> on Wednesday May 19, 1999 @05:09AM (#1887275) Homepage
    Don't forget that there are lots of new T-shirts availible as well! There is the new 2.5 graphic, as well as the older OpenBSD daemon shots, as well as the blowfish encryption shirt. They're all availible at http://www.OpenBSD.org/orders.html [openbsd.org]. Adam
  • You're right, it is a 1.1.2 product.
    And July 1, it will be released as the official GNU compiler.

    http://egcs.cygnus.com/gcc-2.95/schedule.html
  • Don't forget NetBSD with 1.4 released on 12 May.
  • Contrary to the opinion popularly held among misguided Linux users, most *BSD developers don't dislike each other. Would there be as much cross-development if this were the case? I run FreeBSD on my i386 and axp boxes, and NetBSD on my sparc and m68k boxes.
  • Alpha support "somewhat" working? It works fine for me. Please don't spread FUD.
  • Well, I thought Chuck was a general BSD logo... This one seems fairly generic to me. I know, this particulary logo is used by FreeBSD. Who cares? I both run FreeBSD and NetBSD, and occasionally run OpenBSD. I don't mind. According to Marshall Kirk McKusick [mckusick.com]s page, it is the same image as used for 4.3BSD. Seems generic enough to me.

    Intosi

  • Okay, I realize this is more of a question than a comment, but I've hunted around the various *bsd sites and can't find the answer.

    Can someone either give me the URL which describes the differences between netBSD, freeBSD and openBSD, or summarize the differences for me here?

    How should I know which one to experiment with on my one non-linux box?

    Many thanks,
  • FreeBSD - the "original" version
    No, not really, the original version was 386BSD. If you can read german or trust babelfish, there is a nice litte text on the early history of *BSD by J. Wunsch [deja.com] available at the site formerly known as dejanews.

  • Well... how cool can a penguin be? I mean really.

    *sigh*

  • They have all, the UNICIES, come in new "spring" versions: RedHat, FreeBSD and now OpenBSD, unfortunatly they don't support installation with my initio SCSI-controller. I still have to tweak things. I'm tired of that!!!!!
  • Got one two days ago... and they are sweeet... very very nice.....
  • maybe because no-one tolds them ?

    from my point of view, /. rather tends to be Linux-centric as well, so I'm happy to see BSD announces.
  • So what's your point ?

    Do I need further emphasize that it's `my point of view', and that you needn't bother justify anything there ?

  • Re:Buy the CD if you can (Score:4)

    by espie ( 10901 ) on Wednesday May 19, 1999 @06:23AM (#1887288)
    One very important thing to keep in mind is that OpenBSD is a very small operation, especially when compared with some behemoths these days.

    So, even though the project is alive and well, it's indeed a good idea to buy the CDs, or T-Shirts (for one thing, the CD artwork is nice, and it comes with mondo-cool stickers).

    For one thing, sales are not large enough to warrant a larger format than 2 CDs right now (shipping & handling...), but if sales continue growing, it'll be economically viable to go to 4.

    Yep, we do have enough material to fill the space :)
  • To make this claim you'd first have to check the ratio of Linux:*BSD submissions against the ratio of L:B posts. You very well might be right, but I'd venture to say that this has something to do with it. If you don't see enough BSD stuff posted, then submit the stories.

    Furthermore, like it or not, Linux is in the spotlight today, that's what's getting more press media, thus, more will filter down to slashdot.


    On a lighter (yet more political) note, wouldn't a higher ratio of BSD news resemble 'affirmative action', to some degree? :>
  • I'd like to know where I could get an ISO, too! Please mail or include a link on this list. I hunted through the ftp site to no avail...

    thanks,

  • Buy the CD if you can (Score:5)

    by Raul Acevedo ( 15878 ) <raulNO@SPAMcantara.com> on Wednesday May 19, 1999 @06:07AM (#1887291) Homepage
    If possible, please *buy* the CD, don't just download it off the net. (Or be like me with 2.4, I ordered the CD, but got impatient and downloaded it before it came. :)

    It's important to try to financially support these projects, especially non-commercial ones like OpenBSD. Of course many people are pretty strapped for cash, but if you can afford it, $30 for a super secure, open source, reliable UNIX-like OS is a real bargain, and it helps make great software possible.
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  • ftp.openbsd.org [openbsd.org], for a start.
  • NetBSD - Portability - Made for a multitude of platforms including things like iMAC and Amiga, and a bunch of things you've probably never heard of before.

    OpenBSD - Security - Ultra secure version, less platform support.

    FreeBSD - the "original" version, with a variety of support for actual hardware/peripherials, etc. Also has the most options to it (software, libs, etc)
  • And you forgot SuSE Linux 6.1 which was just posted here yesterday (and of course is much better than RedHat) :-)

    Skippy
  • If you're able to tweak things enough to get the
    SCSI working, perhaps you'd be able to add support
    for your card to the driver set.

    ...and yes, don't forget NetBSD...

    juan
  • >I was wondering though, what kind of compiler
    >does it come with? FreeBSD 3.1 came with gcc
    >2.7.x which is much slower than egcs. Though I
    >was impressed by FreeBSD's speed, some code I
    >built ran much slower than on Linux with egcs.

    Try FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, it currently has egcs-1.1.2 and binutils-2.9.1
    And it works very well for me -- no problems.

  • OpenBSD Images (Score:3)

    by InvisibleCraterFunk ( 29222 ) on Wednesday May 19, 1999 @05:25AM (#1887298) Homepage
    You can find some really nifty OpenBSD images at http://www.monkey.org/~nemickol/openbs d.html [monkey.org]

    There's some other OpenBSD stuff here [monkey.org]
  • I tried to stop by the Calgary distro point this morning) to buy my cd and tshirts but no one was there. I guess he must have been off seeing starwars! :)
  • There is no ISO image for openBSD. I think this is a decission of Theo to encourage people to buy the official cdrom. You can install for free over the net by ftp or http if you have a real network connection.

    There was a big conversation on the openBSD mailing list this month or last (I forget exactly when). There was a method posted then for creating a cd image. That was for 2.4, but it might work for 2.5.
  • Yeah, Slashdot is so distrist! Wha! Wha!

    Lemme guess, you haven't submitted the Linux PPC news, but you expect someone else to? Putting the link in a whiny little post doesn't cut it. Try using the method everyone else uses, the 'submit story' link.

    And grab some cheese, you'll find it goes down better with that whine.
  • ...it isn't a v 1.0 product yet.

    If you want it, you can always get the package and install it.

    Making it the default compiler would be silly when it is still in development.
  • This continues to develop as a great OS.

    NetBSD, FreeBSD, and now OpenBSD have all had major revs in the last six months - its great to see hardware support, platform support (all BSDs are multiplatform, contrary to linux.com's assessment), and performance enhancement across the line. I fully expect these OSs to flourish intensely as support for free software increases over the next few years.

    Viva BSD!

  • Maybe LinuxPPC developers failed to send people a press release to a lot of people.



    I thought mkLinux died because my friend is getting a an Old G3 Beige to mess with LinuxPPC.

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