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OpenBSD 5.1 released

by hackermom on 5/1/12, 9:23 PM with 38 comments

  • by __david__ on 5/2/12, 12:21 AM

    I love OpenBSD and have 5.0 installed on a router. But man they are old-school. Just looking at the upgrade instructions[1] brings me back to the time before package managers and makes my long for a nice "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".

    [1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade51.html

  • by throwaway64 on 5/2/12, 6:16 AM

    one thing to definitely watch in OpenBSD is their new mail daemon, OpenSMTPD. It has a configuration syntax that is about 100x easier to setup and understand than anything else out there, although they are still working to get it up to par feature wise. The code is also written with a heavy focus on security, correctness, and simplicity.

    Its definitely something to watch for all those hackers that want an alternative to gmail that isnt the insanity of a postfix/qmail setup.

               listen on em0
           map aliases { source db "/etc/mail/aliases.db" }
           accept for local deliver to mbox
           accept for all relay
    Thats all you need for a working mail setup :)

    http://opensmtpd.org/

  • by agallego on 5/2/12, 2:18 AM

    I wish I could go back to using it but I currently have to do some GWT dev and they only officially support linux. I tried running a vm and dual boot but that was too much hustle... as soon as I'm done with this project I'll go back to this distro. :)

  • by protomyth on 5/2/12, 1:18 AM

    So far so good on this upgrade. Like all the recent versions I would seriously look at the changes to pf.conf. It seems like taking advantage of some of the new stuff would be in order.

    Also, smtpd seems to be coming along nicely.

  • by KonradKlause on 5/1/12, 10:51 PM

    - NAT64 support in PF using the af-to keyword.

    Sounds really interesting.

  • by derleth on 5/2/12, 12:16 AM

    So what really sets the various BSDs apart? Has anyone done a good comparison between them?