Star OpenBSD 4.4 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Oct 2008 20:04 UTC
OpenBSD The OpenBSD team has released OpenBSD 4.4. "As in our previous releases, 4.4 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system." Information on how you can obtain OpenBSD can be found on the OpenBSD website.
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RE: Another great release
by vegai on Sun 2nd Nov 2008 07:30 UTC in reply to "Another great release"
vegai
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I already have this installed and kernel patched, and works great as usual. Includes preliminary support for UVC USB webcams and WPA/WPA2-PSK. With the intense quality of the OpenBSD releases, from the kernal, to the userland, and system utilities, even how simple it is get the source for X and build it, how is OpenBSD not the absolute king of open source operating systems??


Although I agree that OpenBSD is great, there are many reasons why one would rather have some Linux running.

NVidia and ATI. If you need extreme performance, you need the binary drivers that are only for Linux (and perhaps FreeBSD).

Another reason is package management. I don't know if this has changed for OpenBSD recently, but seems to me that they don't have a simple way to upgrade the whole system fast. You even said in your comment something about getting the sources of X and building them. Almost nobody wants to do that.

Then there's SMP. Almost all new machines have more than one core. How does OpenBSD handle that currently?

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