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OpenBSD 4.6 released

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One of the finest, simplest Unix implementations anywhere. Also gave us OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, and PF. Donate to a good cause: http://openbsd.org/donations.html

Or better, buy a CD set.

OpenBSD is one of my favorite operating systems, I don't think it gets the credit it deserves. That mentioned, there are a few things that have slowed its adoption down.

-drivers for common things such as network cards come to the OS much slower than OSes such as linux.

-the ports system often does not have the latest versions of software because of more code reviews.

-the OS runs somewhat slower than other *nix based operating systems

The ports system also doesn't do updates if you're following -stable, which is a really big deal for most people. Plus its SMP support is incredibly poor.

Nice overview at undeadly.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2009101815531...

Nice release song too :)

http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#46

Does it refer to Ubuntu or am I misinterpreting?

edit: 4.5 song is still missing commentary :(

I think the song is clearly about Apple. My favorite line is 'One button coma'.

PS: sitting at my MPB right now. :)

Now that they have the suggested partitions, I think it has one the simplest text installers out there. I wonder what the adoption rate of the new smtpd will be.

I donated $50. They never cease to amaze me.

Been using this since 2.7 and it gets better every release. I'm happy they still use Apache 1.3 and it's solid. Been running a chrooted httpd server on OpenBSD for close to 10 years, and it has not been compromised once.

2.7 was the first CD set I purchased. Haven't regretted it.

It was their 'man' pages that sold me. Complete and helpful. Their great documentation is one of their unsung accomplishments.

Anyone have it running under VirtualBox yet?

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