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OpenBSD 4.5 light cycles into the wild

Pierre

Yet another Linux derivative? 

Coat

Is this one based on Ubuntu?

OK, OK, don't push I was leaving anyway.

NogginTheNog

v4.5? 

Joke

Bloody hell, so why the heck should I bother upgrading, I'm on version 3 and it does everything I need and it runs on less hardware and it doesn't need a fancy virtualisation layer to run apps and it doesn't have any of that DRM or UAC crud and...

Oh sorry, I've just been reading the Windows 7/Windows XP comments and got a bit confused!

Anonymous Coward

Re: Yet another Linux derivate 

Stop

Er, no. OpenBSD is derived from BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and predates Linux by a good few years. A certain Bill Joy was involved.

Anonymous Coward

Congrats to the OpenBSD crew 

Great operating system.

Jeffrey Nonken

@Pierre 

Joke

Linux derivative? *snort* You almost had me there, I had a flame all ready.