OpenBSD 3.9 Released 130
An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 3.9 was released this morning and is now available for download from the OpenBSD mirror sites. Among the new features is integrated framework for monitoring hardware sensors, a BSD licensed driver for nvidia nforce ethernet, and loads of new drivers and bug fixes. Of course you can still purchase the CD-ROM set which includes support for five platforms: i386, amd64, macppc, sparc, sparc64, and also includes the complete blob free source tree and prebuilt packages for many architectures. As always your contributions help to continue the devlopment of this great opeating system."
Contributions will help all opeating systems. (Score:5, Insightful)
That sentence about should read:
As always your contributions [openbsd.org] help to continue the devlopment of all opeating systems.
Apple's security relies on openSSH, Microsoft service's for Unix are openBSD tools, there's traces of it all over linux. In short openBSD has made everyone's lives better - you should contribute to openBSD if you're a computer user of any sort!
Thanks Theo - for releasing your work under a BSD license, you've allowed us all to benefit from it.
Have my CDs already (Score:4, Insightful)
Installed on an AMD64X2-3800. zoom Had to compile -current for something but I'm in the minority.
Order the CDs and make a donation today, you cheap bastards!
Re:Not to disagree with you... (Score:2, Insightful)
LOL! This statement is just sooo linux. So you use Ubuntu, like the hordes who jumped on Gentoo when it was cool (and on Red Hat and Mandrake long before that.) The overwhelming majority of users who yell 'Linux!' at everybody are switching distros everytime a new one comes out. That's why so much effort goes in to semi-locking-in users by the package management system, a la YAST2. Keep your Ubuntu CD for another year AC, I'll bet even money you have a different distro on your machine.
Of course, this is not to disparage the Ubuntu project; it's one of the more noble to come along in a while. But so is Slackware, because for more than ten years it's been dedicated to making a distro that just gets the damn work done. That's noble too, by the way.
Re:Torrents! (Score:3, Insightful)
First of all, I am not a user of *BSD, although I do appreciate their goals. I am a Debian [debian.org] user and have been one for quite some time now.
One fact to appreciate about Debian is that it is loosing its ties to the Linux kernel [kernel.org] and becoming more and more general, now including even BSD efforts (like the kfreebsd5 [debian.org] port).
So, even though I am a Debian user, I have this secret appreciation for all the work that the BSD people have done and continue to do and I am downloading the OpenBSD release from the torrent site listed in the parent post (that is http://openbsd.somedomain.net/ [somedomain.net]).
We all know that these smaller projects don't have big companies supporting them financially and one thing that other people could do to help visibility (and, in the long term, more users, and, perhaps, even commercial support) is to promote OpenBSD [openbsd.org].
This starts with being kind on their servers and helping with the serving of the release for others, keeping your torrent clients open and serving others. Please, do help others "free" their machines with Free Software.
I'm doing my small share helping others to "get their foot wet" with the support for the torrent.
Regards, Rogério Brito [ime.usp.br].
Re:architectures? (Score:2, Insightful)
With sparc64 you can use the sparc quirks and also the security mechanisms intentionally built into the sparc64's, which the sparc's lack.
sparc64 seems to be the best platform of all to employ the highest security with OpenBSD.
What a shame Sun are such a bunch of a-holes with their pseudo "open source friendly" stance. They open up the specs and design to their CPU's, but they have REFUSED FOR YEARS to provide programming info for the chipsets in their UltraSPARC III's and beyond. And even today with their new "open source friendliness", they STILL REFUSE to provide programming info for those chipsets.
Seriously, how much are OpenBSD *really* going to hurt Sun by allowing me and a few thousand people around the World from running OpenBSD on a cheap Sun Blade 1000 from eBay? It's a sad state of affairs really. Sun take OpenSSH, modify it into their SunSSH and then HARM OPENSSH DEVELOPMENT by forcing the OpenSSH devs to have to compile on some 450MHz 4MB L2 UltraSPARC II at best.
The divide between the fastest sparc64 a BSD can run and a top Opteron system is absolutely huge now. And now that Sun are shipping Opterons in the workstation class, surely they could open the chipset info now? C'mon Sun!
Re:Source updates on a minimal system? (Score:3, Insightful)
Kill this goddammed myth already...
Removing programs from your hard drive can't POSSIBLY make your machine any more secure. Taking the SUID/SGID bit off can, but that's a bit different, and programs like GCC aren't SUID, anyhow.
It's absolutely ridiculous to assume an intruder NEEDS you to install GCC for him. He can quite easily install OpenBSD on his own hardware and compile the code there, transfering the binary to your box. Or he can install whatever dev tools he wants, once he has root on your box.
Please, point out a single POSSIBLE way that having GCC on your machine COULD make your machine SLIGHLY less secure. JUST ONE!