OpenBSD 3.7 Released

pgilman writes "It's official: OpenBSD 3.7 has been released. There are oodles of new features, including tons of new and improved wireless drivers (covered here previously), new ports for the Sharp Zaurus and SGI, improvements to OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, CARP, PF, a new OSPF daemon, new functionality for the already-excellent ports & packages system, and lots more. As always, please support the project if you can by buying CDs and t-shirts, or grab the goodness from your local mirror."

Yay!

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't wait to install this on all my servers with Adaptec RAID cards! Oh yeah... Damn dirty Adaptec! How's Theo's battle with them going, by the way?

Growl

[iamdrscience]

OpenBSD, OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, CARP, PF, OSPF

Do BSD-folk have some strange aversion to pronouncable acronyms? Only 1 out of 7!

That's irony, right?

[Medievalist]

Fanboy.

Re:Good!

[MightyMartian]

BSD is direct Unix herritage, Linux is the bastard COPY.

William the Conqueror was a bastard too, and you'll notice that you don't have anyone on the English throne named Ethelbert or or Athelstan.

Re:Growl

[fr2asbury]

Sure they're pronouncable:
Open-bee-ess-dee
Open-ess-ess-aitc h
Open-bee-jee-pee-dee
Open-enn-tee-pee-dee
Car p
pee-eff
oh-ess-pee-eff

No problem. ;-)

Getting closer

[Anonymous Coward]

Soon it will reach the crucial watershed version 3.11

Re:But, but...

[hobbesx]

Is OpenBSD a better choice?

Maybe. What color is your mouse?

Re:How's the install?

[maita]

Don't worry, it is just another added security layer for your safety. Now, you have to agree, it works well!

The installation lures you into thinking all is going well until it hits you with OpenBSD's most reliable security method: the Dumb Sysadmin Prevention System [linux.org] . In short, OpenBSD's install is so hard that you need to be genius to complete it, thus eliminating the cause of the majority of security issues -- dumb sysadmins.

Re:Good!

[Skye16]

Why was William the Conquerer standing on your ancestor?!?

Re:Getting closer

[Anonymous Coward]

I've never understood .10 is a higher blah than .9 blah, .10=.1=.100 So which is the higher blah 0000000000.1000000000 or 0000000000.9000000000 s blah DECIMAL system. If you don't blah 3.11 blah 11.1011 and 3.5 would be 11.101 11.1011 blah 11.101 whereas 3.11 blah blah 3.5.

And further, why the hell did Microsoft go from 3.1->3.5->3.11 I seem to recall there being a few other numbers in the arabic numeral set.

[Stares blankly]

"But you see, this one goes to eleven"

Re:SMP

[Anonymous Coward]

OpenBSD has supported SMP since 3.6 (i386 and amd64 platforms.) Here's the page [openbsd.org] confirming this.

SMP in OpenBSD is slightly different to normal implementations for security reasons. Generally when one processor is in use, the other suspends itself to avoid race conditions. That way you get the full advantages of SMP, not wearing out a single CPU for instance, without the possibility of race conditions causing some kind of security hole.

Re:Growl

[someonehasmyname]

Tell me about it... I have a client that tries to pronounce _every_ acronym. It makes me crazy. I can't tell you how many times I've heard "da-nis" instead of D-N-S, or "fipt" instead of F-T-P.

Re:How's the install?

[rpdillon]

Someone mod this offtopic; we're talking about OpenBSD, not FreeBSD. =)

T-Shirts? No thanks!

[YetAnotherName]

please support the project if you can by buying CDs and t-shirts, ...

I would love to, except Puffy the logo fish is horribly disfigured [openbsd.org].

Linux shirts are out, too: Tux is overweight. No, I can't buy a FreeBSD T-shirt either: I live in Texas [rmitz.org].

Re:Growl

[Waffle Iron]

Pronounceable acronyms are rediculous

Actually, acronyms [wikipedia.org] are supposed to be pronounceable:

Initialism originally referred to abbreviations formed from initials, without reference to pronunciation, but during the middle portion of the twentieth century, when acronyms and initialisms saw more use than ever before, the word acronym was coined for abbreviations which are pronounced as a word, like "NATO" or "AIDS". The term initialism is now typically taken to refer to abbreviations which are pronounced by sounding out the name of each constituent letter (e.g. HTML).

What you are really saying is you don't like people using initialisms as acronyms.

Re:How's the install?

[someonehasmyname]

Like, OMG. You're so right. I bet back in the day, more people would have been running DOS if they didn't have to know what fdisk was.

How do they expect us to use this super advanced UNIX if we can't figure out how to install it?!

It's not like we're computer geeks or anything!1!!1

Since you insist.

[Medievalist]

You can call me a fanboy, but I say

OK, you're a fanboy.

Re:How's the install?

[scatters]

Pah! Real men don't click!

At least the fish is open about it now

[MrSmithers]

See? I told you. I told all of you. I told you FOUR YEARS AGO [slashdot.org] but nobody believed me.

Now take a look at the OpenBSD web page [openbsd.org]. Just try and tell me the fish didn't finally come out of the closet with this release. The raised eyebrow, the pouty lips, the rainbow background. I told you.

Sigh, I hate people.