OpenBSD 4.3 Released

An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 4.3 is now available! Released today, May 1, 2008, 4.3 introduces many new improvements and upgrades. The complete changelog is here. Torrents can be found here." As usual, this release is accompanied by a song.

hmm?

/me is curious why this article is displayed as abbreviated while the gNewSense article is displayed as full text.

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/me is curious why this article is displayed as abbreviated while the gNewSense article is displayed as full text.

Curious like how a perp dies in police custody?

zing!

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For exactly the opposite reason from what you'd probably expect. Flame Wars = Ad views, and Slashdot has been working for years to create an atmosphere where RMS's concept of "free software" is flame war material. gNewSense article = "free software" flame

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Yeah, I'm tired of hearing about every alpha/beta/rc that nubuntu comes out with. The BSD developers do far more work than the people working on the linux distros.

Torrents are Available

Here's the tracker - http://openbsd.somedomain.net/ [somedomain.net]
Most popular architectures appear to be i386, amd64, and sparc64.

Picture of 'New' Rack?

Everyone should click on the picture of their 'new rack' in the lower right of the page.
Looks like some truly ancient hardware... are those SS-20s?

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Most likely these [openbsd.org] And what's wrong with SS20's or some other, older hardware?

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SS10 and 20 machines can run up to 4 hypersparcs which keeps my hopes for SMP SPARC32 alive and with hypersparcs up to 200MHz, they make pretty good build machines. Also Ultra1's are Sun4u. It's sort of hard to hack SPARC32 on a SPARC64.

As far as wanting

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Did you ever think that FreeBSD is so stable, many of the users don't post?

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HAHA OH WOW. Please tell me you're seriously asking me that.

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Are you including the comprehensive ports tree?

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Great! FreeBSD is grown a lot lately, the default installation is over 800 MB.

Dang! At current prices [newegg.com], that'll cost me nearly 14 cents. That's just unacceptable.

Sarcasm aside, I think FreeBSD long ago gave up any pretense of being a minimal OS. There's nothing at all wrong with that goal, but FreeBSD's target hardware is larg

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If BSD dies, it will really be a bad day, since I'll be forced to run my servers with shitty, bloated code that is riddled with security problems (you guys call it Linux, if I recall correctly). Obligatory "the difference between BSD and Linux users is th

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Hey, I'm not fat!

Re:none for me, thanks

I've always liked the idea of OpenBSD but stuck with Linux because OpenBSD ISO images are so hard to find. IIRC, they do this on purpose.

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/install43.iso (replace with address and path to your nearest mirror [openbsd.org] and architecture [openbsd.org] where appropriate)

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Simple solution is to check the MD5. If it matches, you're fine. If you're worried about hogging the project's bandwidth, buy a CD set. The $50 will go to a good cause.

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I think it has less to do with the ideals of the FSF as much is it has to do with a month-long-flamewar that happened on their mailing list from dec to jan. In short they're not as much denouncing GNU as much as they are denouncing GNU trolls

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No, they are opposed to the trolling of Stallman who was spreading falsehoods about their project and then refused to apologize or even acknowledge his misstatements.

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I see CDs slowly but surely heading the way of the floppy. At some point, they're going to disappear from more or less all new units. They're off a few models already, but it's too soon to say when the tipping point will hit.

The reason that CD drives are disappearing is because of the fact that DVD drives are pretty much as cheap as any CD drive AND can read CDs (with many able to also burn CDs).

When it does, the sales of read-only CDs will have to be replaced, possibly with read-write SD flash or USB sticks or something similar.

This logic doesn't follow. DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray drives all read CDs. Why would t

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Flash drives are great but they are not great at arcivile backups.
I don't think you will be seeing optical media going away anytime soon. DVD drives are about as cheap as CD drives and DVDR drives are very cheap.
Optical drives are only being pulled from su

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You're almost an hour behind there. See: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=540248&cid=23264284 [slashdot.org] and then http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=540248&cid=23264514 [slashdot.org]

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but they should begin to work together instead of beginning a war.

Get your facts straight. Hell, get some facts - at least.

We didn't start shit.

We're just ending the war with style [openbsd.org], baby. ;)

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You're not going to get anywhere by complaining about flame wars between the OpenBSD guys, the GNU guys and the Linux guys. They disagree, and all three groups have people with forcible personalities and no reason not to start a flame war. RMS was asking f

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I assume you are referring to this event, which would be the obvious start to any war (and not by the BSD folks):

http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/13/156258 [slashdot.org]

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Yes, but does it run Linux?

Yes [openbsd.org].