OpenBSD Launches Version 4.1
The OpenBSD project has released a new update, bringing the seminal OS to version 4.1. Although not perhaps as well known as FreeBSD, which is the core component underlying Mac OS X, OpenBSD is a popular OS in its own right.
Version 4.1 brings a number of changes including increased hardware compatibility options, which is one of the core focuses of OpenBSD. Among the guiding principles of the project is this mantra:
No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to device support.
However the new version isn’t all about hardware, there’s also some significant improvements to the software as well. OpenBSD 4.1 features an all new BSD-licensed pkg-config tool, which is a complete rewrite of the GNU tool of the same name, as well as a BSD-improved flavor of Apache 1.3.
But let’s face it, who’s in it for the OS? The really great part about a new release of OpenBSD is it means there’s another of those patently cheesy songs to accompany it. Check out Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors, nerdiness at its high, or low, point, depending on how you look at it.
