<story><title>OpenBSD 5.4 Released</title><url>http://www.openbsd.org/54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csmuk</author><text>Signed up to agree.&lt;p&gt;Canned 6 Ubuntu machines (servers) and replaced with OpenBSD 5.3 recently. So much goodness ships with openbsd it&amp;#x27;s unreal. Bar Theo&amp;#x27;s sharp tongue (which is usually spot on),  you get pf, opensmtpd (so much cleaner than postfix), nginx in base, miles better manual pages than Linux,  no horrid gnu info, small and simple base system, absolutely no surprises, no bloated crap like dbus&amp;#x2F;upstart, tmux in base and what I can only describe as a warm fuzzy &amp;quot;why the hell isn&amp;#x27;t everything like this&amp;quot; feeling.&lt;p&gt;Also, it&amp;#x27;s just about the only thing I&amp;#x27;ve found that can work adequately entirely offline without having to use google to fix obscure problems and decypher documentation.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve got a bootable USB stick that contains the base packages, entire FAQ (main documentation source outside manpages), all normal binary packages I use, WiFi firmware and its less than 2Gb.&lt;p&gt;Thanks as well.</text></item><item><author>sramov</author><text>Packets already flowing through 5.4 -&lt;i&gt;release&lt;/i&gt; on my &amp;#x27;lil ALIX home router. Workstation on -&lt;i&gt;current&lt;/i&gt;, of course.&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; quite like OpenBSD out there. Thank you OpenBSD developers!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pit</author><text>Agreed, the base install gives you a system that feels both minimal and complete at the same time.&lt;p&gt;Plus, every release includes a song: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#54&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openbsd.org&amp;#x2F;lyrics.html#54&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenBSD 5.4 Released</title><url>http://www.openbsd.org/54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csmuk</author><text>Signed up to agree.&lt;p&gt;Canned 6 Ubuntu machines (servers) and replaced with OpenBSD 5.3 recently. So much goodness ships with openbsd it&amp;#x27;s unreal. Bar Theo&amp;#x27;s sharp tongue (which is usually spot on),  you get pf, opensmtpd (so much cleaner than postfix), nginx in base, miles better manual pages than Linux,  no horrid gnu info, small and simple base system, absolutely no surprises, no bloated crap like dbus&amp;#x2F;upstart, tmux in base and what I can only describe as a warm fuzzy &amp;quot;why the hell isn&amp;#x27;t everything like this&amp;quot; feeling.&lt;p&gt;Also, it&amp;#x27;s just about the only thing I&amp;#x27;ve found that can work adequately entirely offline without having to use google to fix obscure problems and decypher documentation.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve got a bootable USB stick that contains the base packages, entire FAQ (main documentation source outside manpages), all normal binary packages I use, WiFi firmware and its less than 2Gb.&lt;p&gt;Thanks as well.</text></item><item><author>sramov</author><text>Packets already flowing through 5.4 -&lt;i&gt;release&lt;/i&gt; on my &amp;#x27;lil ALIX home router. Workstation on -&lt;i&gt;current&lt;/i&gt;, of course.&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; quite like OpenBSD out there. Thank you OpenBSD developers!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfortuny</author><text>The doc is really unbeatable, I know nothing like it anywhere.</text></comment>