OpenBSD 5.0 is released

The OpenBSD Foundation has released version 5 of its eponymous operating system uigebracht. The free BSD variant provides updated software packages, broader hardware support and, according to the developers, improved performance.

OpenBSD 5.0, the thirtieth release of the operating system, would come with improved memory management on various architectures, and a more solid network stack. Also, a large number of drivers are updated, allowing more scsi devices are supported and 10 Gigabit ethernethardware can be used. Further, the use of wake on lan has been improved, while during the installation process proprietary drivers can be installed.

In the OpenBSD release are also the necessary packages are updated. OpenBSD 5.0 contains Gnome 2.32.2, KDE 3.5.10, Xfce 4.8.0, and version 5 of mail client Thunderbird. It is striking that for Firefox can be chosen from version 3.5, 3.6 or 5.0. Users can as an alternative browser Chromium 12 install.

OpenBSD uses is not traditionally the latest versions of open-source software packages. The OpenBSD Foundation chooses to do this, to own say for security reasons and shields with the statement that the standard version of OpenBSD in the last ten years, the only two bugs it has known remote exploits made possible.