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."

How's the install?

[m50d]

Manually creating a BSD disklabel is not to be taken lightly. If you're experienced you can do it, but it's very far from friendly. Anyone know if they've done anything to make it easier?

I hope

[Knights who say 'INT]

.. the song is good.

"Systemagic" and "E-railed" are still my favorite ones. They went sillier after that. "The Ballad of Puffy Hood" is okay-ish, anyway.

"Systemagic" is really a nice song to chant, drunk, with nerd friends."Cracking the bedroom, HEY, cracking the vault, cracking the bedroom HEY SECURE BY DEFAULT. CAAAAAAAAAAAAAN'T FIIIIIIIGHT THE SYSTEMAGIC. ÜBER TRAGIC. CAAAAN'T FIGHT THE SYSTEMAGIC! SYSTEMAGIC!.

Decent firefox port ?

[DrSkwid]

3.6 is stuck on 0.8

does my head in

I know a page where one can get a patchset against 1.01 and compile but I like my systems and vanilla as possible, ports & packages only, then I can reliably install a new box via script

Intel Wireless

[Anonymous Coward]

One of the new features is Intel Wireless support. I think that's very significant.

I must say that OpenBSD is a joy to work with. It is much cleaner and more consistently designed than everything else out there, including Linux. I have an old OBSD box that acts as a router and wireless access point, hasn't been updated in years, and I know I'll be giving it 3.7 to keep it up to date.

Now that it has Intel Wireless support, I might just switch to OBSD from Debian on my laptop.

Hmm

[rsax]

I wonder what's the reason for not signing the checksums.

ftp://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/i386/ [depaul.edu]

SMP

[Ritz_Just_Ritz]

I haven't followed openBSD in quite some time and the answer wasn't apparent from the "features" link...but... Did Theo get around to supporting SMP yet? Given the avalanche of "cheap" multicore processors coming down the pike, SMP support sure would be nice.

OpenBSD clusters make my heartbeat faster...

[Yannic]

Here's the plan:
1. Set up High Availability router with pfsync. (using computers rescued from the trash)
2. Set up a HA Network RAID system using DRBD [drbd.org] or something similar. (using more computers rescued from the trash)
3. Build a Kerrighed [kerrighed.org] or OpenSSI [openssi.org] Single System Image cluster. (using the latest and greatest computers one can rescue from the trash)
4. ???
5. Profit! (and thus, have enough money to actually buy equipment)

I've already set aside Tuesday evening to upgrade my bandwidth throttling [benzedrine.cx] OpenBSD router. I set it up the day before 3.6 came out, so I didn't feel like upgrading until now. I'm tired of the typical hardware failures you tend to get out of computers people throw out (maybe that's why they threw them out in the first place) but mostly I'm looking forward to getting a learning experience hundreds of times more valuable (personally) than getting my MCSE 2003.

\/\/\/

Re:OpenBSD for a linux user

[n3v]

I _was_ a [Slackware] Linux user for quite some time between around 1995-2001. I discovered OpenBSD because all my 'elite' friends were using it or FreeBSD. I did my homework and chose OpenBSD for my firewall, web, dhcp, nntp, db, app server.. I started to use it at home and was instantly impressed. The 1st time I ever touched it I had my server up in 30 minutes!! It seems more to be more mature and consistant. It is well documented and works great! I haven't used Linux since ;p Not to say Linux doesn't have it's place, but it's not with me right now. One thing you'll find though, you usually won't we using '0day' software. This is because it takes time to create something of quality, that has been checked and balanced.

We use it at my work now, we have about 10 OpenBSD servers at different locations all over North America, we don't need the newest software, we have no problem waiting a few months sometimes. We need something that is easy to manage and works consistantly.

OpenBSD!