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RUNT (ResNet USB Network Tester) was Slackware Linux designed to run from a 128MB USB pen drive. It consists of a boot floppy image and a zip file, similar to "zipslack". It was intended to be a fairly complete Linux installation for use as a testing tool capable of booting on any x86 computer with a USB port and a bootable floppy drive. The boot floppy was based on Slackware's bare kernel. It contains an initial ramdisk to load USB-storage related modules and it pauses for 5 seconds to allow the drive to initialize. The bootdisk also contains Memtest86, a very useful RAM testing tool, which can be started by typing memtest at the boot prompt. The zip file contains a UMSDOS filesystem designed to be extracted onto a 128MB pen drive with an MSDOS filesystem using 2K clusters.
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| 2020-05-19 |
NEW • 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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| 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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| 2024-04-05 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.5 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.5, the latest stable version of the free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system, in active development since 1996: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 7.5. This is our 56th 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, 7.5 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: added bt(5) and btrace(8) support for binary modulo operator; added a TIMEOUT_MPSAFE flag to timeout(9); added IBM encoded version of the "Spleen 8x16" font, usable as console font; cleanup and machine-independent refactoring of three context switch paths outside of mi_switch(): when a process forks and the new proc needs to be scheduled by proc_trampoline, cpu_hatch: when booting APs, and sched_exit: when a proc exits; made vscsi(4) 'vscsi_filtops' mpsafe and extended the 'sc_state_mtx' mutex(9) to protect 'sc_klist' knotes list; made out-of-swap checking more robust, preventing potential deadlocks...." Read the detailed release announcement for further a complete list of changes. Download: amd64/install75.iso (653MB, pkglist), amd64/install75.img (664MB), arm64/install75.img (555MB), i386/install75.img (450MB). |
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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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| 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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| 2019-04-24 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.5 |
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OpenBSD is an open source operating system designed with the goals of being simple, secure and offering correct documentation. The project's latest release is OpenBSD 6.5 offers Clang on the mips64 architecture, improves wireless performance, and the unveil() function now handles protecting filesystem assets above the process's directory. "Installer improvements: rdsetroot(8) (a build-time tool) is now available for general use. During upgrades, some components of old releases are deleted. Security improvements: unveil(2) has been improved to understand and find covering unveil matches above the working directory of the running process for relative path accesses. As a result many programs now can use unveil in broad ways such as unveil("/", "r"). unveil(2) no longer silently allows stat(2) and access(2) to work on any unveiled path component." The new release also offers LibreSSL 2.9.1 and OpenSSH 8.0 which include security improvements. Further details can be found in the project's release notes and in the changelog. Download: amd64/install65.iso (388MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install65.iso (368MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2018-10-18 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.4 |
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OpenBSD is a security-focused operating system with a design that emphasises correct code and accurate documentation. The project has released OpenBSD 6.4 which includes many driver improvements, a feature which allows OpenSSH's configuration files to use service names instead of port numbers, and the Clang compiler will now replace some risky ROP instructions with safe alternatives. Perhaps the most interesting feature is the unveil() system call which allows applications to sandbox themselves, blocking their own access to the file system. This is especially useful for programs which operate on unknown data which may try to exploit or crash the application: "New unveil(2) system call to restrict file system access of the calling process to the specified files and directories. It is most powerful when properly combined with privilege separation and pledge(2)." Other security improvements include: "Implemented MAP_STACK option for mmap(2); new RETGUARD security mechanism on amd64 and arm64 - use per-function random cookies to protect access to function return instructions, making them harder to use in ROP gadgets...." Further details can be found in the project's release notes and in the changelog. Download: amd64/install64.iso (343MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install64.iso (324MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2018-04-02 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.3 |
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OpenBSD is a security-focused operating system with a focus on correct code and accurate documentation. The project has released OpenBSD 6.3 which introduces SMP support on the ARM64 architecture, includes ISO support in the virtual machine daemon (vmd) and makes memory allocation more efficient. There have also been several updates to the LibreSSL and OpenSSH secure communication tools: "LibreSSL 2.7.2 - Added support for many OpenSSL 1.0.2 and 1.1 APIs, based on observations of real-world usage in applications. These are implemented in parallel with existing OpenSSL 1.0.1 APIs - visibility changes have not been made to existing structs, allowing code written for older OpenSSL APIs to continue working. Extensive corrections, improvements, and additions to the API documentation, including new public APIs from OpenSSL that had no pre-existing documentation. Added support for automatic library initialization in libcrypto, libssl, and libtls. Support for pthread_once or a compatible equivalent is now required of the target operating system. As a side-effect, minimum Windows support is Vista or higher." The release announcement has more information. Download (pkglist): amd64/install63.iso (335MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install63.iso (324MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2017-10-09 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.2 |
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OpenBSD is a lightweight operating system designed with code correctness and security in mind. The project has released OpenBSD 6.2 which features many new drivers, particularly for the ARM architecture, and network packet handling performance improvements. Some key features have been added to the system installer too, including checking for security updates on the system's first boot: "Installer improvements: The installer now uses the Allotment Routing Table (ART). A unique kernel is now created by the installer to boot from after install/upgrade. On release installs of architectures supported by syspatch, "syspatch -c" is now added to rc.firsttime. Backwards compatibility code to support the 'rtsol' keyword in hostname.if(5) has been removed. The install.site and upgrade.site scripts are now executed at the end of the install/upgrade process. More detailed information is shown to identify disks. The IPv6 default router selection has been fixed. On the amd64 platform, AES-NI is used if present." Further information on OpenBSD 6.2 can be found in the project's release notes. Download (pkglist): amd64/install62.iso (330MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install62.iso (320MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2017-04-11 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.1 |
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The OpenBSD developers have announced the availability of a new stable release of their security-oriented operating system. The new release, OpenBSD 6.1, introduces bug fixes, several new or improved hardware drivers and security enhancements to the system installer. "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.1. As in our previous releases, 6.1 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. The installer now uses privilege separation for fetching and verifying the install sets. Install sets are now fetched over an HTTPS connection by default when using a mirror that supports it. The installer now considers all of the DHCP information in file name, boot file-name, server-name, tftp-server-name, and next-server when attempting to do automatic installs or upgrades. The installer no longer adds a route to an alias IP via 127.0.0.1, due to improvements in the kernel routing components." Additional details on the OpenBSD 6.1 release can be found in the project's release announcement and a complete list of changes since version 6.0 can be found in the project's changelog. Download (pkglist): amd64/install61.iso (209MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install61.iso (199MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2016-09-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.0 |
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The OpenBSD team has announced the availability of a new stable release of their security-oriented operating system. The new release, OpenBSD 6.0, introduces many bug fixes, improved driver support for many devices and fixes a number of potential security issues in OpenSSH. The new release also features a new tool, proot, for building software ports in an isolated chroot environment. Support for the VAX platform has been dropped for this release. "New/extended platforms: armv7 - EFI bootloader added, kernels are now loaded from FFS instead of FAT or EXT file systems, without U-Boot headers. A single kernel and ramdisk are now used for all SoCs. Hardware is dynamically enumerated via Flattened Device Tree (FDT) instead of via static tables based on board id numbers. Miniroot installer images include U-Boot 2016.07 with support for EFI payloads. vax - Removed." Additional details on OpenBSD 6.0 can be found in the project's release announcement and a complete list of changes since version 5.9 can be found in the changelog. Download (pkglist): amd64/install60.iso (226MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install60.iso (216MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2016-03-29 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.9 |
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The OpenBSD project has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.9. The OpenBSD project focuses on providing code and documentation that are correct and of high quality. This has lead to OpenBSD being regarded as a highly secure and reliable operating system. The new release features W^X (write or execute) security for 32-bit x86 processors, many new and improved hardware drivers and support for installing OpenBSD on GPT partitioned hard drives. This release features a forked version of the "less" command and network stack improvements. Updated versions of LibreSSL and OpenSSH are included as well and feature several security enhancements. A complete list of new features and improvements can be found in the project's release announcement and in the more detailed changelog. Download (pkglist): amd64/install59.iso (223MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install59.iso (213MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2015-10-18 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.8 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.8. The OpenBSD project focuses on providing code and documentation that are correct and of high quality. This has lead to OpenBSD being regarded as a highly secure and reliable operating system. The new release features several new or improved drivers, the sudo command has been replaced with doas and some of the system installer's default settings have been changed. "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.8. This is our 38th release on CD-ROM (and 39th via FTP/HTTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 5.8 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system." Further information and a detailed list of changes can be found in the release announcement and in the errata. Download (pkglist): amd64/install58.iso (220MB, SHA256), i386/install58.iso (210MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-04-30 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.7 |
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Stefan Sperling has announced the availability of OpenBSD 5.7. "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.7. This is our 37th release on CD-ROM (and 38th via FTP/HTTP). 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, 5.7 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. Improved hardware support includes: new xhci(4) driver for USB 3.0 host controllers; new umcs(4) driver for MosChip Semiconductor 78x0 USB multiport serial adapters; new skgpio(4) driver for Soekris net6501 GPIO and LEDs; new uslhcom(4) driver for Silicon Labs CP2110 USB HID based UART...." The latest release of the security oriented flavour of BSD includes many changes such as the removal of SSLv3 support from base utilities and more strict enforcement of write-exclusive-or-execute (W^X) in the kernel. The release announcement has more details and the project provides a full changelog of the changes between OpenBSD 5.6 and version 5.7. Sperling further linked to the project's errata page which lists potential problems and fixes for the new release. Download: amd64/install57.iso (219MB, SHA256), i386/install57.iso (208MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2014-11-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.6 |
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Antoine Jacoutot has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.6, the latest version of the free, multi-platform UNIX-like operating system focusing on proactive security and integrated cryptography: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.6. This is our 36th release on CD-ROM (and 37th via FTP/HTTP). 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, 5.6 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. LibreSSL: this release forks OpenSSL into LibreSSL, a version of the TLS/crypto stack with goals of modernizing the codebase, improving security, and applying best practice development processes; no support for legacy MacOS, Netware, OS/2, VMS and Windows platforms, as well as antique compilers; removal of the IBM 4758, Broadcom ubsec, Sureware, Nuron, GOST...." Visit the OpenBSD 5.6 release page to read the complete list of changes and improvements. Download: amd64/install56.iso (227MB, SHA256, torrent), i386/install56.iso (211MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2014-05-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.5 |
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OpenBSD 5.5, the latest version of the free, multi-platform UNIX-like operating system with focus on proactive security and integrated cryptography, has been released: "This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.5: time_t is now 64 bits on all platforms; from OpenBSD 5.5 onwards, OpenBSD is year 2038-ready and will run well beyond Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC; the entire source tree (kernel, libraries, and userland programs) has been carefully and comprehensively audited to support 64-bit time_t... Some highlights: GNOME 3.10.2 KDE 3.5.10 and 4.11.5, Xfce 4.10, MySQL 5.1.73 and PostgreSQL 9.3.2, Postfix 2.11.0, OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.38, Mozilla Firefox 24.3 and 26.0, LibreOffice 4.1.4.2, PHP 5.3.28 and 5.4.24, Python 2.7.6 and 3.3.2, Chromium 32.0.1700.102, GCC 4.6.4 and 4.8.2...." See the OpenBSD 5.5 release page for a long list of changes and improvements. Download (torrents): amd64/install55.iso (237MB, SHA256, torrent), i386/install55.iso (222MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2013-11-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.4 |
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Nick Holland has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.4, a free, multi-platform UNIX-like operating system with focus on portability, standardisation, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.4. This is our 34th release on CD-ROM (and 35th 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, 5.4 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: new platform for systems based on the Cavium Octeon MIPS-compatible processors, supported machines include Portwell CAM-0100, Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter LITE; new platform for OMAP3/4 and AM335x systems using an ARM Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9 CPU...." Visit the OpenBSD 5.4 release page to read the full list of changes and improvements. Download (torrents): amd64/install54.iso (232MB, SHA256, torrent), i386/install54.iso (216MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.3 |
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Stuart Henderson has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.3, a free, multi-platform operating system with a strong focus on security and meticulous code review: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.3. This is our 33rd release on CD-ROM (and 34th via FTP). As in our previous releases, 5.3 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: improved hardware support, including new driver oce(4) for Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet adapters, new driver rtsx(4) for the Realtek RTS5209 card reader; OpenSMTPD 5.3; OpenSSH 6.2; over 7,800 ports, major performance and stability improvements in the package build process. Some highlights: GNOME 3.6.2, KDE 3.5.10, Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with X.Org Server 1.12.3 + patches...." Read the OpenBSD 5.3 release page which for a long list of improvements. Download: amd64/install53.iso (227MB, SHA256, torrent), i386/install53.iso (212MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2012-11-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.2 |
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Bob Beck has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.2, a free, multi-platform BSD-based UNIX-like operating system: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.2. This is our 32nd release on CD-ROM. 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, 5.2 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. The most significant change in this release is the replacement of the user-level uthreads by kernel-level rthreads, allowing multithreaded programs to utilize multiple CPUs/cores. Some highlights: GNOME 3.4.2, KDE 3.5.10, Xfce 4.10, MySQL 5.1.63, PostgreSQL 9.1.4, Postfix 2.9.3, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.19, 3.6.28 and 13.0.1, Mozilla Thunderbird 13.0.1, LibreOffice 3.5.5...." See the OpenBSD 5.2 release page which includes a detailed list of all changes and improvements. Download links: i386/install52.iso (226MB, SHA256, torrent), amd64/install52.iso (241MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2012-05-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.1 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.1, a BSD operating system with a focus on security: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.1. What's new? umsm(4) supports additional mobile broadband devices; non-GigE ale(4) devices can now establish link to a GigE link partner; support for Intel 82580 has been added to em(4); support for MegaRAID 9240 has been added to mfi(4); support for Nuvoton NCT6776F has been added to lm(4)... Highlights: OpenSSH 6.0, GNOME 3.2.1, KDE 3.5.10, Xfce 4.8.3, MySQL 5.1.60, PostgreSQL 9.1.2, Postfix 2.8.8, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.19, 3.6.25 and 9.0.1, LibreOffice 3.4.5.2... The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers: Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with X.Org Server 1.11.4, FreeType 2.4.8, Mesa 7.10.3; GCC 4.2.1; Perl 5.12.2...." The OpenBSD 5.1 release page has a detailed list of all changes and improvements. Quick download links to the i386 and amd64 installation images: i386/install51.iso (222MB, SHA256, torrent), amd64/install51.iso (236MB, SHA256, torrent).
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| 2011-11-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.0 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.0, a new version of a BSD-based operating system renown for its high security thanks to meticulous code review. Some of the new features and systems in the new release include: "Improved hardware support, including: MSI interrupts for many devices, on those architectures which can support them (amd64, i386, sparc64 only so far); a new dma_alloc(9) API makes it easier for kernel code to allocate dma-safe memory; as a result, big-memory support has been enabled on all possible architectures; the rather rare bce(4) driver now copies mbufs all the time, to cope with the hardware having a 1 GB limit. Highlights: GNOME 2.32.2, KDE 3.5.10, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.19, 3.6.18 and 5.0, LibreOffice 3.4.1, PHP 5.2.17 and 5.3.6, Chromium 12.0.742.122...." A much more comprehensive list of features can be found in the detailed release notes. Quick links to download installation CD images for the i386 and amd64 architectures: i386/install50.iso (219MB, SHA256), amd64/install50.iso (233MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-05-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.9 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.9, a BSD-based operating system specialising in high-security solutions through thorough code review. What's new? "OpenBSD amd64 and i386 - enabled NTFS by default (read-only) on GENERIC kernels; enabled the vmt driver by default for VMware tools support as a guest; SMP kernels can now boot on machines with up to 64 cores; maximum allocation size for i386 bumped to 2 GB; handle >16 disks when searching for kernel boot device; added support for AES-NI instructions found in recent Intel processors; further improvements in suspend and resume; processes are now switched to TSS per CPU on the amd64 platform, resulting in removal of the old limit of 4,000 processes. Improved hardware support, including: new vte driver for RDC R6040 10/100 Ethernet devices...." Visit the OpenBSD 4.9 release page to read a detailed, technical overview of the product. Download: i386/install49.iso (215MB, SHA256), amd64/install49.iso (229MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-11-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.8 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.8. Some of the more interesting improvements in hardware support and software updates of this release include: "ACPI-based suspend/resume works on most machines with Intel/ATI video, machines using NVIDIA graphics will not resume the graphics; OpenSSH 5.6 with many new features and bug fixes; Mandoc 1.10.5, a utility used to build all manuals in the base system and in Xenocara from mdoc and man sources; over 6,400 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools; package highlights - GNOME 2.30.2, KDE 3.5.10, Xfce 4.6.2, MySQL 5.1.48, PostgreSQL 8.4.4, Postfix 2.7.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 and 3.5.11, OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, PHP 5.2.13, major components - Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.5 with X.Org Server 1.8 + patches, FreeType 2.3.12), GCC 2.95.3, 3.3.5 and 4.2.1 + patches, Perl 5.10.1, our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS and DSO support...." See the OpenBSD 4.8 release page for more details. Download: i386/install48.iso (212MB, SHA256), amd64/install48.iso (225MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-05-19 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.7 |
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Bob Beck has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.7: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.7. This is our 27th release on CD-ROM (and 28th 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, 4.7 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. Install and upgrade process changes: take more care to ensure all file systems are umounted when restarting an install or upgrade; if no possible root disk is found, keep checking until one appears; the default FTP directory for -stable is now the release directory instead of the snapshot directory. Some highlights: GNOME 2.28.2, KDE 3.5.10, Xfce 4.6.1, MySQL 5.1.42, PostgreSQL 8.4.2, Postfix 2.6.5...." Read the detailed release announcement for a complete list of all changes and improvements. Download: i386/install47.iso (244MB, SHA256), amd64/install47.iso (272MB, SHA256).
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| 2009-10-18 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.6 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.6. The release arrives earlier than expected; as many of the project's paying customers have already received their CDs, the 4.6 tree of the OpenBSD FTP server has been opened to allow full access to any extra packages. From the announcement: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.6. This is our 26th release on CD-ROM (and 27th via FTP). As in our previous releases, 4.6 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: new or extended platforms - MVME141 and MVME165 boards are now supported, SGI Octane, SGI Origin 200 and SGI Fuel systems are now supported, several bugs in interrupt handling have been fixed...." Read the detailed release notes for further information. Download (torrents): i386/install46.iso (232MB, SHA256, torrent), amd64/install46.iso (254MB, SHA256).
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| 2009-04-30 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.5 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.5: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.5. This is our 25th release on CD-ROM (and 26th via FTP). As in our previous releases, 4.5 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: Initial ports to the xscale-based gumstix platform and the ARM-based OpenMoko; improved hardware support and several new or improved drivers for sensors; new tools - ypldap, an YP server using LDAP as a backend; malloc has gained new attack mitigation measures; install now allows multiple interfaces to be configured with DHCP; OpenSSH 5.2; over 5,500 ports, minor robustness improvements in package tools; major components - Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.4), GCC 2.95.3 and 3.3.5, Perl 5.10.0; our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of all changes and improvements. Download: i386/install45.iso (229MB, MD5), amd64/install45.iso (251MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2008-10-31 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.4 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.4, a BSD operating system with a strict security philosophy and advanced security features: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.4. This is our 24th release on CD-ROM (and 25th 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, 4.4 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: new or extended platforms for sparc64, socppc, landisk; improved hardware support; new tools and functionality; assorted improvements and code cleanup; install and upgrade process changes; OpenSSH 5.1; over 4,500 ports, minor robustness improvements in package tools (Firefox 3, GNOME 2.20.3, Inkscape 0.46, KDE 3.5.8, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, Xfce 4.4.2...." Read the release announcement and release information for a detailed list of changes and improvements. Download: i386/install44.iso (216MB, MD5), amd64/install44.iso (236MB, MD5).
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| 2008-05-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.3 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.3: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3. This is our 23rd release on CD-ROM (and 24th 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, 4.3 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. Highlights include: GNOME 2.20.3, GNUstep 1.14.2, KDE 3.5.8, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12, Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12, MySQL 5.0.51a, OpenMotif 2.3.0, OpenOffice.org 2.3.1, PostgreSQL 8.2.6, Xfce 4.4.2." Read the release announcement and release notes for a detailed list of changes and new features. Installation ISO images for a variety of architectures are available for download from these OpenBSD mirrors and also via BitTorrent; quick links to the i386 and amd64 installation images: i386/install43.iso (203MB, MD5), amd64/install43.iso (222MB, MD5).
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| 2007-11-01 |
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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| 2007-05-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.1 |
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OpenBSD 4.1 has been released: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.1. This is our 21st release on CD-ROM (and 22nd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.1 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system." OpenBSD 4.1 is available for two new platforms (landisk and sparc64), provides hardware support for many new devices, including many Ethernet and wireless network cards, and includes a range of new tools and various functionality improvements. Please read the full release announcement and product page for a complete list of new features. As always, OpenBSD 4.1 is provided for download in the form of small CD images for network installation; here are two quick links to the i386 and amd64 files: i386/cd41.iso (4.88MB, MD5), amd64/cd41.iso (5.10MB, MD5). Official CD sets can be obtained from the OpenBSD store (US$50.00).
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| 2006-11-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.0 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-ROM (and 21st via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single remote hole in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.0 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. New/extended platforms: armish - various ARM-based appliances, using the Redboot boot loader, currently only supporting the Thecus N2100 and IOData HDL-G; sparc64 - UltraSPARC III based machines are now supported; zaurus - support for the Zaurus SL-C3200." Improved hardware support, many new tools, new functionality features, and assorted improvements are all part of OpenBSD 4.0; find more details in the release announcement. As usual, the official OpenBSD 4.0 CD set is only available from the project's online store (US$50.00), but small CD images designed for network installation can be downloaded for free. Quick links to the i386 and AMD64 CD images: i386/cd40.iso (4.88MB, MD5), amd64/cd40.iso (5.05MB, MD5).
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| 2006-05-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 3.9 |
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OpenBSD 3.9 has been released: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.9. This is our 19th release on CD-ROM (and 18th 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, 3.9 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. Improved hardware support, including: some G5-based Apple Macintosh machines, including WX support; many more audio drivers in the macppc port; support for many system sensors...." Read the full release announcement and visit the OpenBSD 3.9 page to learn more. As usual, all OpenBSD releases are available either as small bootable images for network installation or as official CD sets from the project's online store (US$45). Here is a quick link to the i386 installation CD: cd39.iso (4.62MB, MD5).
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| 2005-11-01 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 3.8 |
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OpenBSD 3.8 has been released: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.8. This is our 18th release on CD-ROM (and 19th 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, 3.8 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: Improved hardware support, including new aps driver for the built-in accelerometer found in some IBM ThinkPad laptops, new art driver for Accom Networks Artery T1 and E1 cards...." A detailed account of all changes can be read in the release announcement and on the product's features page. OpenBSD 3.8 is available as a network installation CD image for a number of architectures; here is a quick link to the i386 image: cd38.iso (4.55MB). As always, the official CD set can be ordered through the project's online store (US$45.00).
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| 2005-10-21 |
Interviews: OpenBSD 3.8 - Hackers of the Lost RAID |
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Only ten days to go before the new OpenBSD 3.8 is formally released (although the officially CD set is reportedly shipping already). As a preview, ONLamp has published a long, highly technical interview with several OpenBSD developers about the new features in version 3.8: "It's release time again for OpenBSD! The upcoming 3.8 will include some wonderful features for network gurus (trunking, tracking wireless roaming users, interface groups, a new ipsec configuration tool, and failover of ipsec links), a great rework of malloc() that will provide further security protections by default, and the first version of bioctl - a universal RAID management interface." Read the rest of the interview here. The official CD set of OpenBSD 3.8 is available for order on this page (US$45.00).
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| 2005-05-20 |
Interviews: OpenBSD 3.7 - The Wizard of OS |
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O'Reilly's ONLamp has published an interesting interview with the core developer team of OpenBSD, discussing new features in version 3.7: "Today the OpenBSD project announced the new 3.7 release. This is the first release to support newer wireless chipsets, especially for 802.11g, thanks to a big activism campaign lead by project leader Theo de Raadt. It's now possible to create a portable access point with a tiny PDA using the Zaurus port, too. As usual, there are a lot of other big and small changes, such as the import of X.Org, the jump towards GCC 3, and a feature to update your installed packages automagically. Discover the details behind the scenes in this interview that Federico Biancuzzi had with several OpenBSD developers." The complete interview is available here.
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| 2005-05-19 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 3.7 |
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OpenBSD 3.7 has been released: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.7. This is our 17th release on CD-ROM (and 18th 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, 3.7 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. New platforms: OpenBSD/zaurus - expanding the arm porting effort by supporting the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000, bringing a secure ssh-capable machine to your pocket; OpenBSD/sgi - starting out support with the SGI O2 machines." Full details can be found in the release announcement, OpenBSD 3.7 page, and changelog. Network installation ISO images for various architectures can be downloaded from one of the project's download mirrors; a quick link to the i386 image: cd37.iso (4.5MB, MD5). The full 3-CD OpenBSD set can also be purchased on the orders page (US$45).
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| 2004-11-18 |
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Shows Steady Improvement |
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NewsForge has published a review of the recently released OpenBSD 3.6: "What strikes me most about OpenBSD in general is the professional manner in which it is developed and released. By professional I don't mean 'corporate', as in meaningless meetings, bad design strategies, incompetent bosses, unreasonable deadlines, etc. I mean it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what it claims to do. Each release is a small step forward; operating system development should be a battle of inches instead of historically disastrous attempts at giant leaps, and OpenBSD 3.6 personifies that philosophy. With the exception of SMP support, every enhancement new to 3.6 is a few inches forward." Read the rest of the review here.
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| 2004-10-29 |
BSD Release: OpenBSD 3.6 |
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OpenBSD 3.6 has been released: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.6. This is our 16th release on CD-ROM (and 17th 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, 3.6 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. New platform: OpenBSD/luna88k; expanding the mvme88k porting effort by supporting Omron's line of 88100-based workstations. SMP support on OpenBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/amd64 platforms. New functionality: a cleaned up DHCP server and client implementation, now featuring privilege separation and safe defaults...." The announcement, release notes. Download the installation ISO from one of the OpenBSD mirrors or order the full CD set from the project's online store (US$45).
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| 2004-07-22 |
OpenBSD 3.5 Review |
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NewsForge has published a review of OpenBSD 3.5: "The OpenBSD Project released OpenBSD 3.5 exactly on schedule on May 1, adding support for new functions and devices in the kernel and updating the base system. While it may not be the most versatile operating system in the world, OpenBSD shines when it comes to security, providing a default installation that doesn't have to be locked down and partially disabled before using it." Read the full review here. Ours is here.
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| 2004-07-07 |
OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only |
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Not a week goes by without a new computer security bulletin being issued. The problem is particularly acute on servers, and diligent system administrators face an endless (and often thankless) task watching for security alerts and downloading the relevant patches as soon as these become available. Not surprisingly, a lot of sysadmins would kill for an operating system in which the code was carefully audited in advance so that vulnerabilities were squashed before they could be exploited. In the following article, we explore OpenBSD, an operating system built from the ground up with security in mind. Though not suitable for every taste, OpenBSD will no doubt save many system administrators gray hairs. Even for those not running a server, this is a very stable and powerful OS and you don't necessarily need to be paranoid (though it helps) to enjoy using it.
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| 2004-05-01 |
BSD Distribution Release: OpenBSD 3.5 |
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OpenBSD 3.5 has been released: "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 full announcement or the release notes for a comprehensive list of improvements. As always, the full set of OpenBSD ISO images is only available from the project's online store (US$40), but the full release can be installed via FTP from one of the OpenBSD mirrors. This is the boot ISO image for the i386 architecture: cd35.iso (2.9MB). OpenBSD is multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system with emphasis on security and integrated cryptography.
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| 2004-04-29 |
Review: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition |
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OSNews has published a technical review of OpenBSD 3.4 on SPARC64: "All of the operating systems under evaluation (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and coming soon Linux and Solaris) have one or more options available to make the system an effective and secure firewall. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and of course OpenBSD have the ability to run OpenBSD's pf (packet filter). They, along with Solaris, also have the ability to run IPFilter, which is what powered OpenBSD's firewall capabilities until a very public and very nasty spat between Darren Reed (author of IP Filter) and Theo De Raadt (infamous head of the OpenBSD) over licensing issues led to OpenBSD creating its own packet filter." The complete review.
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