Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Nov 2007 22:51 UTC, submitted by Earin
OpenBSD 4.2 has been released. "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.2. This is our 22nd release on CD-ROM (and 23rd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the default install." Update: A what's new article at ONLamp.
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Good programming practices and code audits.
The also tend to add features which have been well tested; take SMP for example. Sure, OpenBSD could go off, and fine-grain everything under the sun, but the net result could be a huge mountain of bugs being exposed due to these changes.
What I see in OpenBSD is a gradual move forward. Rather than add a tonne of features and sort out the issues later, things are improved gradually. Although I'd hate to use this as an example, Windows Vista is a prime example of a tonne of changes being crammed into a single release then rushing around like headless chickens afterwards trying to fix up thing as the wheels fall off.
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Good programming practices and code audits.
And probably a few other things I don't know about.