3 May 2012

OpenBSD 5.1 Released With Better Hardware Support & Performance

OpenBSD 5.1 Released With Better Hardware Support & Performance
Last year we got both FreeBSD & PCBSD 9 after few months we got GhostBSD 2.5 Final version. Couple of moths ago a public beta of NetBSD 6.0 get released for testing purpose. Now its the turn of OpenBS, The OpenBSD project has made version 5.1 of its free BSD-based UNIX-like operating system available to download. The latest update to the distribution comes six months after the release of OpenBSD 5.0 and includes better hardware support, performance improvements and new features, as well as package upgrades. 
Some Highlights:-
  • GNOME 3.2.1 (fallback mode)
  • KDE 3.5.10
  • Xfce 4.8.3
  • MySQL 5.1.60
  • PostgreSQL 9.1.2
  • Postfix 2.8.8
  • OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.26
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.5.19, 3.6.25 and 9.0.1
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0.1
  • GHC 7.0.4
  • LibreOffice 3.4.5.2
  • Emacs 21.4, 22.3 and 23.4
  • Vim 7.3.154
  • PHP 5.2.17 and 5.3.10
  • Python 2.5.4, 2.7.1 and 3.2.2
  • Ruby 1.8.7.357 and 1.9.3.0
  • Tcl/Tk 8.5.11
  • Jdk 1.7
  • Mono 2.10.6
  • Chromium 16.0.912.77
  • Groff 1.21 
Along with these we are getting OpenSSH 6.0, Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.11.4 + patches, freetype 2.4.8, fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.10.3, xterm 276, xkeyboard-config 2.5 and more), OpenSSL 1.0.0f, Bind 9.4.2-P2, Gcc 4.2.1, Perl 5.12.2, Lynx 2.8.7rel.2 with HTTPS and IPv6 support, Sudo 1.7.2p8 & so on.  For additional information & to see the release note click here.

To Download OpenBSD 5.1 Click Here