OpenBSD 4.6 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Oct 2009 12:06 UTC, submitted by ebasconp
OpenBSD As mentioned in the release announcement: "Many people have received their 4.6 CDs in the mail by now, and we really don't want them to be without the full package repository. We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.6. This is our 26th release on CD-ROM (and 27th via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the default install." I really want news like this on the front page, but sadly, the long list of improvements makes no sense to me - I don't know what's important and what isn't. If someone can provide a nice readable summary of the most important improvements, I'll include it to the item and place it on the front page. There we are.
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Kebabbert
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2007-07-27

"That's the main reason I have selected the BSDs as my main operating systems (next to Solaris...): They pay attention to deliver good software"

It is your opinion that Solaris is not of high quality??

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Doc Pain Member since:
2006-10-08

It is your opinion that Solaris is not of high quality??


OF COURSE NOT! While BSD is my main OS, I also use Solaris (and OpenSolaris).

I just wanted to point out that paying attention to overall quality is a thing that I (as a developer) do often miss with Linux; that's why I do not use it very often anymore. Searching for documentation about kernel interfaces, file formats or library calls can be a troublesome journey, especially because there are different Linux distributions that handle things differently. Furthermore, there's often the situation that there is either no man page at all, or just an outdated info page, some notes in a file burried deep in some arbitrary directory, or documentation is just scattered around the web, placed in forums, wikis, or left to the users in another way. The kernel source is not as tidy, well documented and enlightened by meaningful identifiers as it is found in the BSD kernels.

Of course, that's just my very individual point of view, so please nobody feels attacked.

Commercial operating systems usually do come with good documentation, too, allthough it might not be for free.

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