We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.5. This is our 15th release on CD-ROM (and 16th via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD’s record of eight years with only a single remote hole in the default install. As in our previous releases, 3.5 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. Read the official release announcement and changelog.
these guys know their stuff, congrats to you and keep up the good work.
Congratulations OpenBSD team ! Thanks for your hard work.
Thanks to you and the team for an excellent OS.
Always a joy to see what new BSD releases are capable of…
Congrats OpenBSD team for this new release ! I’m an OpenBSD user since 3.2 (last year), currently using it on a firewall. It’s has been so great now, can’t wait to upgrade ! I wish I can buy more hardware (like a Sparc) to install it on…
Ya know – it would be nice if, when doing a direct copy-paste from another site, if there was some indication that it’s a quote and not the words of OSNews. Look how ArsTechnica does it: in a blockquote (indented, on a separate paragraph) with different colour of text.
Without any indication that it’s a quote, it appears as if something like:
“We remain proud of OpenBSD’s record” is being said by OSNews, or that OSNews are the developers of OpenBSD. Neither of which is accurate, of course.
ftp server seems busy as hell lol, taking forever to load that text announcement lol. oh well doesn’t appear to be slashdotted just yet… Wait till those people get wind of this @_@
May is gonna be a great month with many new releases. Usually, I wait a few days until ftp servers cool down. In the meantime, I look forward to new reviews of both BSD and Linux. Congratulations to the OpenBSD developers.
What more can you ask for?
I just got done downloaded the boot iso and I’ll be installing it quite soon. I plan to use it as an IDS or something similar.
Thanks to the OpenBSD team!
What more can you ask for?
Kernel assisted threading and SMP support?
Seriously though, it’s a kickass OS
Snow White’s grandma says: use the mirror! See http://www.openbsd.org for mirrors. There are loads. Some might not have been synced as of yet though. Unfortunate this nor the main OpenBSD site wasn mentioned in the OSnews announcement post.
“Kernel assisted threading and SMP support?
Seriously though, it’s a kickass OS
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I believe both are being worked on.
I wonder when BSDs will start to adopt “officially” the bittorrent protocol for “official” releases (like some linux distros do, slackware, mandrakes, etc..)
since it will improve the distribution greatly and release the stress from mirrors until ftp servers are widely synced
nice to see amd64 and carp implemention,
btw be sure to check the new song =>
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
http://www.google.pt/search?hl=pt-PT&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=song35.mp3…
I believe both are being worked on.
Yeah, I know. It’ll be sweet.
Can’t wait to install it on my home dial-up firewall!! I use OpenBSD since 2.7 and really love OpenBSD ’cause it’s a high quality product.
OpenBSD team kick asses!! I have much to thanks this guys for.
-=StephenB=- writes there was some indication that it’s a quote and not the words of OSNews
Umm… This was posted by “special contributor Daniel Hartmeier”. Daniel Hartmeier’s address is [email protected]. I’m guessing that he’s quoting himself. 😉
Anyway, congradulations OpenBSD! Has there been progress on the UltraSPARC III front?
Yours truly,
Jeffrey Boulier
Bittorrent only seems to be useful if you distribute isos. Plus, supporting bittorrent on an install floppy is probably next to impossible.
Well done OpenBSD Team for this lastest release…
going to download right now …
-sathish
What more can you ask for?
Better performance and speed?
From the test http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability (at least still available from Google page cache) that compared Linux 2.6 & 2.4, FreeBSD, NetBSD & OpenBSD:
OpenBSD 3.4 was a real stinker in these tests. The installation routine sucks, the disk performance sucks, the kernel was unstable, and in the network scalability department it was even outperformed by it’s father, NetBSD. OpenBSD also gets points deducted for the sabotage they did to their IPv6 stack. If you are using OpenBSD, you should move away now.
Not to say that OpenBSD wouldn’t be a perfect OS for firewalls and routers though. But there’s always room to improve in many fields.
Better performance and speed?
From the test http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability (at least still available from Google page cache) that compared Linux 2.6 & 2.4, FreeBSD, NetBSD & OpenBSD:
It was discussed at length on this site that the author of that study has a personal grudge against OpenBSD. Also, OpenBSD doesn’t have the same focus as Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD. OpenBSD is all about simple security. Security features always come before performance features according to OpenBSD policies. Besides, from my experience, OpenBSD has been plenty performant, even on low-end hardware (P-133, 32MB RAM). I’ve used it for firewall, routing, IDS, and file serving all at the same time and it has worked flawlessly.
Just because it is slower than Linux, doesn’t mean it’s slow
OpenBSD is all about simple security. Security features always come before performance features according to OpenBSD policies.
As the author says in his page – I would hope the two aren’t mutually exclusive.
I dual boot OpenBSD and Arch Linux and the speed difference isn’t even noticable…
Also, OpenBSD doesn’t have the same focus as Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD. OpenBSD is all about simple security.
Now you’re just being an OpenBSD appologist with hurt feelings. Grow up. The performance problems have been largely identified and are being addressed.
In that same paragraph you’re refering to, the guy said that the OpenBSD developers were working on the issues and said that it was the users who were the real ‘stinkers,’ and the ones he refers to sound kind of like you.
Yup, performance sucked in that benchmark, and yes it’s being fixed, despite their focus on security. What we need are fewer BSD users who sound like the majority of the Linux ones I’ve had the misfortune of interacting with.
The bittorrent protocol can apply to whatever files, size or number.
The same way you can make a torrent from an iso you can do it of a directory full of small files, but with some limitations on the hierarchy.
Torrents would always be an alternative, since many cant connect to ports others than the known 80, 21.
Files are broken in small chunks, all is hashed so theresnt the problem of broken files, one will only to be sure that the “package” is genuin. But the same applys when some one grab an iso from a Openbsd FTP mirror.
Deploying torrents would have a rapid benefit, reducing needed bandwidth, reducing comm costs, latency and server stress. Since peers would get files from others and leave the server (and mirrors) for the ones that cant do it other way. That will increase massively the world wide deployament of new software releases, patches, etc.
Give a look to bittorrent protocol
http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/protocol.html
or PDTP, the next generation of ftp based on bittorrent principle of peer«-to-»peer leaving the server-»client aproach aside, with such things as crypto, dir listing and auto gen-torrents
http://pdtp.org
Games such as the next hit of ID, doomIII will use p2p for the multiplayer mode. And there will be the day when such trivial things as freebsd’s cvsup, debian’s apt, slackare’s swaret etc, will employ the bittorrent protocol.
What we need are fewer BSD users…
Youve got no problem there. How many BSd users are left?
Proably less than 50,000. BSD is just so damn pathetic.
the enough number to make others incomfortable
http://www.hewus.com/OpenBSD_3_5_i386.torrent
http://www.hewus.com/OpenBSD_3_5_src.torrent
usb wirless is working.. coo now I can get my ROI out of these cheap 20 buck usb wireless things..
Does it matter how many people are using it? There are enough people to keep it going. Sounds good to me. It runs well in front of and beside my Linux machine.
I’ve been using a linksys WUSB12 for a week or two now, and it’s been working just fine.
I dual boot OpenBSD and Arch Linux and the speed difference isn’t even noticable…
Nice to know.
But I would really like to see some more reliable comparative tests about the speed of various OS’s, including OpenBSD. The many personal opinions seem to contradict each other quite much, you know…
Anyway, I’ve had that setup: OpenBSD + Arch Linux (or some other fast Linux) in my mind too as a possible thing to give a try (just as a hobby…).
Great work Theo et al! OBSD is my cup of UNIX.
“What we need are fewer BSD users who sound like the majority of the Linux ones I’ve had the misfortune of interacting with.”
How can you say that, Kingston? You show up at this site to bash not only Linux (although especially Linux), but almost anything that isn’t DragonflyBSD.
How can you say that, Kingston? You show up at this site to bash not only Linux (although especially Linux), but almost anything that isn’t DragonflyBSD.
I’ve been saving up quite a large list of things in DragonFly that I don’t like. I’ve been saving it for the first realease, because despite these naggin irritations, these folks have been doing more of the things that I’ve long thought good in an OS.
It may look like I play favorites, but really I do not. Everything sucks in a large number of ways; some things just bother people less than others.
Take OpenBSD for example, I’ve nothing against it, but it sucks for not yet having SMP or kernel threading.
*shrug*
Oh, and I can say that because I’ve had a tremendous number of bad experiences dealing with Linux advocates. By far, they outnumber the few who were helpful, friendly, and Linux is still a poor excuse for a cobbled together OS, despite the fact that it’s the current scalability champion among OSS OSs, and it’s only there because of the hype induced attention of corporate coders that it’s there in the first place.
Better architectures don’t require corporate handholding and handmedowns.