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JBLinux was a Linux distribution designed primarily for security and performance, as well as aiming to provide the end-user with up-to-date high quality software. All packages are optimized for Pentium-class CPUs.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2007-11-01 |
NEW • BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.2 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.2: "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. As in our previous releases, 4.2 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. New and extended platforms: PCIe UltraSPARC IIIi machines like the V215 and V245; AlphaServer 1200 and 4100. Install and upgrade process changes: new install method - for the most popular architectures, the FTP sites have a 200MB install ISO file, which contains the base set, permitting non-network installs; allow the specification of an NTP server during installation. Improved hardware support, including native Serial ATA support...." Read the detailed release announcement and visit the OpenBSD 4.2 page for a full list of new features. Download the installation CD from these FTP/HTTP servers or use the project's torrent tracker: i386/install42.iso (204MB, MD5); amd64/install42.iso (223MB, MD5).
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| The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform BSD 4.4-based UNIX-like operating system. Its efforts emphasize portability, standardisation, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project also develops the widely-used and popular OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) software, which provides encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the SSH protocol.
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| 2023-10-16 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.4 |
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The OpenBSD team have announced the release of OpenBSD 7.4, the latest version of the project's security-focused operating system. The new version includes a lot of virtual machine improvements, better SMP performance, wireless networking updates and an interesting random timing feature for the cron daemon. "In cron(8) and crontab(5), add support for random offsets when using ranges with a step value in cron. This extends the random range syntax to support step values. Instead of choosing a random number between the high and low values, the field is treated as a range with a random offset less than the step value. This can be used to avoid thundering herd problems where multiple machines contact a server all at the same time via cron jobs. Extend and improve the ibuf API in libutil and add functions for more specific data types, for modifying data at specific offsets, for getting and setting the file descriptor stored on the ibuf and for efficient wrapping of ibufs into imsgs. The ibuf API is mostly used in network daemons. In wsconsctl(8), add button mappings for two- and three-finger clicks on clickpads. In pax(1) and tar(1), do not open files that will be skipped, speeding up archive creation when many files are skipped." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA256, signature, pkglist): amd64/install74.iso (603MB), amd64/install74.img (664MB). |
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| 2023-04-10 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.3 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.3, the 54th release of the security-oriented operating system. Some of the key features include providing ksh acccess from the system installer, the use of LibreSSL 3.7.2, and OpenSSH 9.3. "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 7.3. This is our 54th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 7.3 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system." The release announcement goes on to provide a long list of technical changes, including: "Installer, upgrade and bootloader improvements: Made installer answers ! and (S)hell drop into a ksh(1) environment rather than the more limited sh(1). Added support for configuring interfaces by lladdr (MAC). Made the installer skip interface configuration questions when no interfaces are available. Fixed resizing partitions on an auto-allocated disk that had a boot partition. Stopped the installer from asking to initialize disks that have softraid(4) chunks. Made efiboot fdt support device trees with NOPs in them (like the kernel version). Improved the default choice for the installer's install media disk question to show the first disk that (a) is not the root disk and (b) is not a disk with softraid chunks (hosting the root disk, for example). Stopped offering WEP in the installer if not supported. Fixed lock file error on installer exit/abort." Additional information is provided in the changelog. Download (pkglist): amd64/install73.iso (597MB, SHA256, signature), amd64/install73.img (664MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2022-10-20 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.2 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.2, the latest version of the OpenBSD project's security focused operating system. "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 7.2. This is our 53rd release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 7.2 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: New/extended platforms: Added support for Ampere Altra; added support for Apple M2; Added support for Lenovo ThinkPad x13s and other machines using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Various kernel improvements: Allowed bsd.rd and bsd/bsd.mp to boot on Oracle Cloud amd64 instances. Added support for switching from glass console to serial console on arm64 systems that default to glass console." Further details can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download (pkglist): amd64/install72.iso (556MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install72.iso (396MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2022-04-21 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.1 |
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The OpenBSD team have announced the release of OpenBSD 7.1, the latest version of this security-oriented operating system. The project has done a lot of work in the last six month, with efforts going into making OpenBSD compatible with Apple's M1 architecture. Improvements have also included wireless driver updates, fixes for tmux, and changes to how OpenSSH handles file transfers. "Near miss in sshd(8): fix an integer overflow in the user authentication path that, in conjunction with other logic errors, could have yielded unauthenticated access under difficult to exploit conditions. This situation is not exploitable because of independent checks in the privilege separation monitor. Privilege separation has been enabled by default in since OpenBSD 3.2 (released in 2002) and has been mandatory since OpenBSD 6.1 (released in 2017). Potentially incompatible changes: In OpenSSH 8.9 the FIDO security key middleware interface changed and increments SSH_SK_VERSION_MAJOR. This release switches scp(1) from using the legacy scp/rcp protocol to using the SFTP protocol by default." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): amd64/install71.iso (561MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install71.iso (401MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2021-10-14 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.0 |
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OpenBSD is a member of the UNIX family of operating systems which places a focus on portability, code correctness, security, and accurate documentation. The project's latest release, version 7.0, introduces RISC64 architecture support, drivers for Apple M1 systems, adds several driver improvements, and the timeout utility from NetBSD has been imported. "What's new: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 7.0. For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading to 7.0. New/extended platforms: Added new riscv64 platform for 64-bit RISC-V systems. The arm64 platform support was improved with the following changes: Support for Apple Silicon Macs has improved but is not ready for general use yet: Added support for installing on a disk with a GPT. Added apldart(4) support for a DART with two sets of registers, needed to support the Synopsis DesignWare USB 3 controller. Added apldwusb(4), a glue driver for the Synopsys DesignWare USB 3 controllers found on the Apple M1 SoC. Added aplns(4) to provide support for Apple NVME storage as found in Apple M1 devices. Added aplpinctrl(4), a driver for the Apple GPIO controller found on the M1 SoCs." Further information on OpenBSD 7.0 can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): amd64/install70.iso (528MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install70.iso (396MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2021-05-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.9 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 6.9, the latest of the regular bi-annual releases from the project that develops a multi-platform, security-oriented UNIX-like operating system. This is OpenBSD's 50th official release: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.9. This is our 50th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 6.9 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. Support for the powerpc64 platform was improved: added astfb(4), a driver for the framebuffer of the Aspeed BMC found on many POWER8 and POWER9 systems; added bsd.mp to powerpc64's installXX.{img,iso}; added RETGUARD implementation for powerpc and powerpc64; added a workaround for PCIO devices that cannot address the full 64-bit PCI address space to powerpc64; added limited emulation of unaligned access in the powerpc64 kernel." See the detailed release notes for a full list of changes and improvements. Download (pkglist): amd64/install68.iso (520MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install68.iso (384MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2020-10-18 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.8 |
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The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform UNIX-like operating system. Its efforts emphasize portability, standardisation, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project's latest release, OpenBSD 6.8, introduces support for the powerpc64 CPU architecture, improves the speed of time-related operations, and offers several fixes. "New/extended platforms: New powerpc64 platform, supporting PowerNV (non-virtualized) systems with POWER8 and POWER9 CPUs, such as Raptor Computing Systems Talos II and Blackbird systems. POWER8 support has not been tested on real hardware yet. Improvements to time measurements, mostly in the kernel: Added support in the kernel and libc for timecounting in userland, eliminating the need for a context switch everytime a process requests the current time, thereby improving speed and responsiveness in programs which make many gettimeofday(2) calls, especially browsers and office software. The userland timecounters are enabled on the amd64, arm64, macppc, octeon and sparc64 architectures." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): amd64/install68.iso (511MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install68.iso (399MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2020-05-19 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.7 |
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The OpenBSD project produces and operating system which places focus on portability, standardisation, code correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project's latest release is OpenBSD 6.7 which introduces several new improvements to the cron scheduling daemon, improvements to the web server daemon, and the top command now offers scrollable output. These and many more changes can be found in the project's release announcement: "This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 6.7. For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading to 6.7. General improvements and bugfixes: Reduced the minimum allowed number of chunks in a CONCAT volume from 2 to 1, increasing the number of volumes which can be created on a single disk with bioctl(8) from 7 to 15. This can be used to create more partitions than previously. Rewrote the cron(8) flag-parsing code to be getopt-like, allowing tight formations like -ns and flag repetition. Renamed the 'options' field in crontab(5) to 'flags'. Added crontab(5) -s flag to the command field, indicating that only a single instance of the job should run concurrently. Added cron(8) support for random time values using the ~ operator." Download (pkglist): amd64/install67.iso (448MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install67.iso (370MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2019-10-17 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.6 |
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OpenBSD is an operating system developer with efforts that emphasize portability, standardisation, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project's latest release, OpenBSD 6.6, furthers the migration from using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) to the Clang compiler on supported architectures. It also improves memory handling on machines with one terabyte of memory or greater. A full of list changes can be found in the project's release announcement. "This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 6.6. For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading to 6.6. General improvements and bug fixes: Fixed support for amd64 machines with greater than 1023GB physical memory. drm(4) updates. The octeon platform is now using clang(1) as the base system compiler. The powerpc architecture is now provided with clang(1), in addition to aarch64, amd64, armv7, i386, mips64el, sparc64. Disabled GCC in base on armv7 and i386. Prevented dhclient(8) from repeatedly obtaining a new lease when the mtu is given in a lease. Prevented more than one thread from opening a wscons(4) device in read/write mode. Allowed non-root users to become owner of the drm(4) device when they are the first to open it." Download (pkglist): amd64/install66.iso (442MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install66.iso (367MB, SHA256, signature). |
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