OpenBSD 3.6 Song Released

Puff writes "The song for the upcoming release of OpenBSD 3.6 is now official. Available as mp3 and ogg."

Re:Song?

[MerlynEmrys67]

Wow - where have you been. OpenBSD has been shipping a "release song" for as long as I can remember... Many of them are funny, most of them cover rather serious topics - none of them are works of art that should ever be played in public.

Re:Living in the past...

[Homology]

The ipf code with the new license did not enter the OpenBSD cvs repository, so your link to the cvs repository shows the old license. Darren Reed later changed his license again, but then it was too late : OpenBSD had it's new packet filter pf (as op OpenbSD 3.0).

The author of ipf (Darren Reed) is regularly on the openbsd mailing lists, and quite often it's just gripe. This whole issue has become quite personal, jugding from the posts.

Re:SMP

[jdew]

Works one newer chipsets. It dosen't work on my Compaq with a BX chipset. Get some weird error about MP: specification not found.

However, on the newer machines, it zips along. Don't expect HT chips to show up as two cpus though.

From the hackathon, they were saying that a quad opteron was compiling the Open kernel in under a minute.

Re:Living in the past...

[Anonymous Coward]

And this clarification was the issue. The OpenBSD project read the original license the way I am sure most people would; BSD-like with changes and redistribution permitted, preserve copyrights, don't hold the author accountable, etc.

This clarification by Reed was absolutely intolerable because it prohibited bug fixes without his approval.

If this clarification had been in there from the beginning, I doubt the OpenBSD project would ever have used IPF.

Re:Apache

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, they use the version BEFORE the code was transferred over to the new licence. Apache is still included with OpenBSD, but not any code since the licence "update".

Re:Apache

[gebner]

But OpenBSD.org uses it to serve pages.

AFAIK, only the Apache Licence 2.0 is non-free. That might be why openbsd.org is still using 1.3.27:

$ telnet www.openbsd.org 80
Trying 129.128.5.191...
Connected to www.openbsd.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:44:57 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.1 mod_perl/1.27
Last-Modified: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:15:04 GMT
ETag: "91089-1d67-4151cf38"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 7527
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.

Re:Apache

[Triumph The Insult C]

s/NetBSD/Solaris/

Re:SMP

[Nonesuch]

SMP is functional and stable on a Dell 1750 server.

Although it's just one of many [openbsd.org] changes, it receives an inordinate amount of attention.

I'm tempted to make my next machine a dual-processor AMD64 system just to play with all of the new features in 3.6

Great news!

[ivoras]

From the "What's new" list:

• SMP support on OpenBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/amd64 platforms.
• tcpdrop(8), a command to drop TCP connections.
• A generic IEEE 802.11 framework has been added.
• Improved support for USB 2.0 (ehci(4)) controllers.
• ... and more.

See http://www.openbsd.org/36.html [openbsd.org]