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- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Complete OpenBSD 4.0 Changelog for anyone interested: http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html
- Chronological, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7A lot of older hardware that OpenBSD runs great on only has CD-ROM drives.
- neozeed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Please never install openbsd or read the manual. Keep on your unbunto burrito or whatever the hell its called.
The world is a happier place without iso bois. - Garda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Not bad. Especially after hearing that NetBSD is in the doldrums and that FreeBSD and OpenBSD are running very short on cash
- neozeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If the cdrom iso crowd would read the instructions they would realise they dont *NEED* the iso's they covet so much. But then since they can't do that much research they just run back to their 10,000 variations of debian.
I think the community is better off without them. - Andy.D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You've never been able to. If you know what you're doing, you don't need an ISO. It's that simple.
- 0v3rk1ll, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5No, you're still angry because you were 0wned by their members. Take your sorry ass elsewhere.
- CypherXero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@felderado
Ever heard of FTP? I install OpenBSD via an FTP install. - atkuku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ISOs aren't needed. I've run OpenBSD since 3.4 and have yet to use an ISO. Just download the files, burn them on a CD, boot from a floppy and install off of the CD. Easiest install ever - if you can deal with partitioning - which anyone familiar with BSD or Linux should be able to do.
- ax0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3w00t!
Long time supporter of OpenBSD checking in!
http://www.focushacks.com/photo/Ax0n2.jpg
Although, my latest retro-hardware score was an RS/6000 F30. Since AIX doesn't like to acknowledge 3COM 905-TX cards that weren't IBM-Branded, I will probably toss NetBSD on it instead. Open won't work on many RS6K's.
Also, OpenBSD is easily customizable. I run a tweaked XDM with my own modified XFlame (with OpenBSD text on fire) as the login background, and WindowMaker. It looks and acts just as good as FreeBSD or GNU/Linux for desktop/laptop applications. Theo and the gang have been kickin' ass on bleeding-edge hardware support. No BLOBS or tricky firmware downloads needed! - merdely, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The ISO that is downloadable is a boot CD only, like the floppy images. The installation sets still need to be accessed via NFS, FTP or HTTP (or on another disk or even tape).
- Chronological, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The disk ISO layout is copyrighted. Never freely available for download but the bootable installs are there. There have been 3rd party ISO's done, but as the CD sales are OpenBSD's developers primary income for the project its frowned upon.
Support the project and pick up a copy http://www.openbsd.org/items.html#40 - jakethecake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just bought a t-shirt and a poster
https://https.openbsd.org/images/poster16.gif
https://https.openbsd.org/images/tshirt-26_front.gif
I don't like it as a desktop os, I use Freebsd, Gentoo or G/FBSD there instead.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/fbsd/
But as a Firewall/Router, man :) I love it - hobbers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Even better, you can install directly from the online repositories. I haven't burned an OpenBSD install CD in ages. All you need is a blank floppy to get the installation started. The bare minimum packages are small enough that it doesn't take long to download. Without X, the total size is probably less than 50 or 60 MB. Maybe too much for dial up, but that's about it.
Send OpenBSD some support if you can. They do a good job, hopefully they're around for a long time. I bought a couple tshirts from them, and I just use it as a firewall/router at home. - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, before I went with a standard Linksys wireless router I had an old pentium running openbsd. I like pf more than iptables. The language used in the config is just more natural and easy to understand. (Not to mention none of that --option crap)
Plus, let's face it, except for a few masochists that post on gentoo-user every now and then no one wants to run Gentoo on a Pentium 200MHz. - 0v3rk1ll, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Awesome. I've always liked OpenBSD's policy of security getting first priority. For a digital vault, look no further. Hopefully they'll get the funding they need 'cause this is a very worthy project.
- beni, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2No 'netcraft confirms bsd is dying' posts? Oh wait, this isn't Slashdot.
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1"Five architectures on three CDs in a soft-shell DVD case."
How bout five architectures on one DVD in a CD case? - flimflamman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0After ten years I finally realised that OpenBSD has nothing to do with latex at all. Now I feel a bit silly.
- bearda, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0You've never been able to download an ISO of the disk images before, I'd be surprised if they started now. The linked release notes certainly don't mention it (in fact they include the CD instructions "so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had purchased a CDROM instead"). As far as I know (although it's been a while since I tried to install on my old Sparcstation) they've only offered boot disk ISOs that you could then do a network install from.
Andrew Beard - felderado, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0why are you dumbasses digging these people down?
YOU CANNOT DOWNLOAD THE ISO FOR FREE
This article needs to be marked as inaccurate, and the submitter needs to have his head beat it for being a god damned idiot.
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