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! 15: <h1>OpenBSD</h1>
! 16: <h3><hr>Changes Relative to other *BSD's.</h3>
! 17:
! 18: <p>
! 19: OpenBSD looks a lot like NetBSD (which it is derived from, following
! 20: the 4.4BSD roots), but is now being developed seperately. Good changes
! 21: from other free operating systems will be merged in (of course, depending
! 22: on various factors like developer time for example.) OpenBSD tracks
! 23: NetBSD changes very closely; say anywhere between 2 days to 10 days
! 24: behind the state of NetBSD-current all the time. Hence you can truly
! 25: say that OpenBSD is NetBSD <b>PLUS MORE STUFF</b>.
! 26: </p>
! 27:
! 28: <p>
! 29: Various additions have been made. This is only a small partial list of
! 30: the major machine independent changes (ie. it is the most interesting
! 31: changes or what people ask about most often). Check the specific port
! 32: you are interested in for further details of that port -- many of them
! 33: have been extended too.
! 34: <ul>
! 35: <li>Many many NetBSD PR's fixed (which NetBSD has not yet fixed)
! 36: <li>New curses library, including libform, libpanel and libmenu.
! 37: <li>a termlib library which understands termcap.db, needed for new curses.
! 38: <li>The FreeBSD ports subsystem was integrated and is usable by you!
! 39: <li>ipfilter for filtering dangerous packets
! 40: <li>better ELF support
! 41: <li>nlist() that understands ELF, ECOFF, and a.out, allowing non-a.out ports
! 42: to use kvm utilies
! 43: <li>Verbatim integration of the GNU tools (using a wrapper Makefile)
! 44: <li>All the pieces needed for cross compilation are in the source tree.
! 45: <li>Some LKM support in the tree.
! 46: <li>ATAPI support (should work on all ISA busses)
! 47: <li>new scsi, md5, pkg_* commands
! 48: <li>Numerous security related fixes
! 49: <li>Kerberos and other crypto in the source tree that is exportable
! 50: <li>Solid YP master, server, and client capabilities.
! 51: <li>/dev/*random -- a device driver providing some kinds of random data
! 52: <li>In-kernel update(8) with an adaptive algorithm
! 53: <li>Some ddb improvements and extensions
! 54: <li>Numerous scsi fixes
! 55: <li>ncheck utility for ffs
! 56: <li>/sbin/init now deals with non-existant ttys, no longer spins gettys madly.
! 57: <li>new system calls: rfork(), minherit(), poll().
! 58: <li>select() that can handle any amount of file descriptors.
! 59: <li>kernfs extensions
! 60: <li>ATM support (support for one company's sparc & i386 cards available)
! 61: <li>Boot kernels with "-c" to edit/enable/disable device configuration tables
! 62: <li>pax as tar, gnutar is toast
! 63: <li>using AT&T awk, gawk is toast
! 64: <li>Even more security fixes.
! 65: <li>Accepts FreeBSD MD5 passwords in password maps, soon will be able to
! 66: generate them too
! 67: <li>Linux ext2fs and BSD4.4 LFS support being worked on.
! 68: <li>Working ATAPI audio support for multiple architectures.
! 69: <li>terminfo database support.
! 70: <li>Fortran in the tree.
! 71: <li>The most secure rdist support anywhere.
! 72: <li>randomized port allocation in bind(), bindresvport(), and rresvport() --
! 73: security via unpredictability.
! 74: <li>Protection from the udp spamming and ftp bounce attacks.
! 75: <li>Significantly improved ftp daemon.
! 76: <li>Numerous more security policy and implimentation improvements (OpenBSD
! 77: defaults to installing in a very secure mode)
! 78: <li>zlib (non-GPL'd gzip-compatible library)
! 79: <li>Newest version of pppd.
! 80: <li>_POSIX_SAVED_IDS behaviour with permitted BSD extensions.
! 81: <li>Fixed long-standing vm swap-leak.
! 82: <li>FreeBSD malloc() that uses mmap() and is able to free unused memory.
! 83: <li>Numerous FreeBSD userland fixes and improvements incorporated.
! 84: <li>new rdisc Router Discovery daemon
! 85: <li>generic protection against the bind() takeover problem.
! 86: <li>at -f security fix.
! 87: <li>install now supports -C, -p, and -S flags.
! 88: <!-- <li>a real adduser program, which can even be used uninteractively. -->
! 89: <li>POSIX & C2 requirement; lose setuid/setgid bits if owner/group changed
! 90: by chown(). This can be turned off with sysctl.
! 91: <li>partial protection against tcp SYN attacks.
! 92: <li>added /etc/fbtab support to login & init.
! 93: <li>RCS version 5.7
! 94: <li>much newer join command (4.4lite2 with other fixes)
! 95: <li>scsi subsystem security fix
! 96: <li>Kerberos is much more silent if not configured
! 97: <li>arc4-based random support in kernel
! 98: <li>ncr53cXXX scsi scripts assembler
! 99: <li>Numerous ftpd improvements and fixes, including multihomed support.
! 100: <li>`lsof'-style features in fstat.
! 101: <li>/bin/ksh (latest version of pdksh) with more fixes.
! 102: <li>rudimentary support for ISA Plug-and-Play cards
! 103: <li>Fixed timeout support in RPC library, and also fixed it to support more than
! 104: FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
! 105: <li>improved locate command
! 106: <li>a good start at NETIPX support
! 107: <li>vi version 1.75
! 108: <li>gcc 2.7.2.1 (to get closer to native alpha support and fix a few other gcc
! 109: bugs).
! 110: <li>latest version of perl, and a lndir command.
! 111: <li>Even more security fixes.
! 112: <li>cdio command for using CD audio.
! 113: <li>Kernel warns if /dev/console does not exist; nice warning for booting with an
! 114: unpopulated /dev directory.
! 115: <li>libgnumalloc is gone; our malloc() is better.
! 116: <li>FreeBSD pipe() system call; quite a bit faster.
! 117: <li>Some serial drivers support /dev/cuaXX devices for transparent
! 118: dialout+dialout, like in SunOS
! 119: <li>DDB can now access symbol tables from LKM modules
! 120: </ul>
! 121: </p>
! 122:
! 123: <p>
! 124: This list only mentions platform-dependent changes. For a list of changes
! 125: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform.
! 126:
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