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Old 18th June 2008
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$50 is actually pretty cheap when you consider the price of commercial operating systems, heck my wireless router probably costs more then an OpenBSD CD would.

Not to mention that Windows XP/Vista install disks are almost outdated before they get off the disk making machinery ;-)



I've always installed OpenBSD via boot disk and FTP. I'm very grateful that they make binaries available so I don't have to resort to a 4.x BSD source install style of setting things up!!!

Like jggimi said, releases are basically a snapshot with better testing and longer support life.


The actual code base is always changing, always evolving, which is why last months snapshot of -CURRENT on may 1st @ 2100Z ain't garrenteed to be the same as a snapshot of -CURRENT taken tonight at 1600Z.



If I had $50 when I setup my OpenBSD machine, I would've placed an order for the upcoming 4.0 Release, I would nab the disk set just to say thank you to the developers for creating such a great system.


If we don't want to wait on their work to get done and make it's way to us easy, well we best get off our duff and go help them ;-)


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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
This horse isn't quite dead, so I'm going to whack at it another time

very nice choice of words lol.
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