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BSDanywhere 4.3 Final Release

Contributed by ray on from the It's aliiiiiiiiive! dept.

From the BSDanywhere site:
Good things come to those who wait.

After eight months of work we've now released the final version of BSDanywhere 4.3 - Enlightenment at your fingertips, the OpenBSD Live CD.

It might take some time until the images are propagated to all mirror servers. Have a look at our download page.

There aren't much changes since beta 3, which is Good(TM):

We have removed bsd.rd to motivate people getting pure OpenBSD if they decide for it. We don't need the ramdisk kernel anyway because our entire system can be used for disaster recovery and other rescue tasks. While loosing the nice feature of being able to install OpenBSD with our CD's on the one hand, we're making a clear statement on the other: Get OpenBSD instead if you want to install it.

Since we gained some megabytes due to the removal of bsd.rd we added more packages. Besides Galculator, which has been integrated into the E17 menu, we have now mboxgrep, nemesis, newsfetch, queso, radiusniff, scanssh, smtpscan, ssldump, stress and stunnel.

While releasing 4.3 we're also making our official artwork publicly available. A big 'thanks' to Tim Saueressig for this awesome stuff! He also created some really nice CD cover labels.
Of course, some may ask why releasing a 4.3 release even though half of the planet is already hyping for OpenBSD 4.4. Well, it's quite simple: See our first final release as kind of a Release Candidate for 4.4. We are only packagers, we won't add feature over feature to BSDanywhere. Actually, some of us believe "we're done" ;).

There will be a 4.4 release soon, somewhere in November.

And last but not least, the usual propaganda: If you use OpenBSD or OpenSSH on a regular basis, to achieve your daily work or even to make some money - please pay forward by supporting the OpenBSD project. Buy a release set or donate money.

Cheers,
Stephan

Be sure to check out this project if you need to try out or demo OpenBSD in a hurry!

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (88.66.139.212) on

    The OpenBSD LiveCD Guide[1] was just updated as well.
    It is now possible to create DVD images with as many packages as will fit without hitting a bug in CDBOOT.

    [1] http://openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD

  2. By Anonymous Coward (87.178.154.187) on

    > We have removed bsd.rd to motivate people getting pure OpenBSD if they decide for it. We don't need the ramdisk kernel anyway because our entire system can be used for disaster recovery and other rescue tasks. While loosing the nice feature of being able to install OpenBSD with our CD's on the one hand, we're making a clear statement on the other: Get OpenBSD instead if you want to install it.


    Strange statement. You want to motivate people to get OpenBSD by making it hard to get it? Sounds like a contradiction. Why do you want people to not install OpenBSD? How can you call that promotion (which you probably want to do)?

    You can easily get OpenBSD from the mirrors. That makes it an even stranger statement.

    Installing it from CDs is barely easier than from the net. So what's your point?

    On the other hand, some kind of one click install from a working live CD would really have made some things easier and been a very good feature to promote OpenBSD.

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    1. By Stephan A. Rickauer (82.192.243.246) on http://bsdanywhere.org

      > > We have removed bsd.rd to motivate people getting pure OpenBSD if they decide for it. We don't need the ramdisk kernel anyway because our entire system can be used for disaster recovery and other rescue tasks. While loosing the nice feature of being able to install OpenBSD with our CD's on the one hand, we're making a clear statement on the other: Get OpenBSD instead if you want to install it.
      >
      >
      > Strange statement. You want to motivate people to get OpenBSD by making it hard to get it? Sounds like a contradiction. Why do you want people to not install OpenBSD? How can you call that promotion (which you probably want to do)?

      It is believed that we could cut into the OpenBSD CD sales. That's why we clearly draw the line at being a CD system only. Those who are interested in *installing* OpenBSD should get OpenBSD. And possibly pay forward by buying a release.

      > You can easily get OpenBSD from the mirrors. That makes it an even stranger statement.

      It is not our business to decide why the OpenBSD project believes their online ISO's won't cut into their sales.

      > Installing it from CDs is barely easier than from the net. So what's your point?

      See above.

      > On the other hand, some kind of one click install from a working live CD would really have made some things easier and been a very good feature to promote OpenBSD.

      It would make people believe BSDanywhere is an alternative to OpenBSD. It isn't. This is not like a Linux distro capable model.

      See also http://groups.google.com/group/bsdanywhere/msg/6abf7d2bb9f5176c

      Stephan A. Rickauer

    2. By Drailex_Mauder (69.11.10.201) on

      > On the other hand, some kind of one click install from a working live CD would really have made some things easier and been a very good feature to promote OpenBSD.


      Actually, it makes perfect sense if you think about it from the standpoint of the OpenBSD developers. They do not want support responsibility for other people's work, and a one click installer would place them in the position of turning away people for support if they used the hypothesized one click install - much they same way they currently turn away people who compile custom kernels. They don't want the hassle of trying to determine if a one click install created by some other group is responsible for problems with OpenBSD installs.

      By removing bsd.rd, the BSDanywhere group is ensuring that a clear delineation exists between their project and the OpenBSD project, which I imagine is appreciated by most, perhaps even all, the OpenBSD developers.

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