I recently did my first upgrade from 3.6 to 3.7 without the cd's and it was surprisingly simple... I would say the upgrade was less complicated than my last linux upgrade (kernel and userland is in sync here).
Love this OS On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:21:29 +0200 Moritz Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From my experience, I can say that upgrading is not actually an "issue" > with OpenBSD. This can be best explained with one of the catch-phrases > that describe it, "OpenBSD constantly evolves, it does not revolutionize > all the time." Version numbers are mostly that, numbers, and an > indication that several weeks of disciplined quality assurance went into > it after another development cycle. > > The result is really painless upgrades -- maybe not in a sense of > (attempted) automation like on some other OSes, but in terms of > breakages. The time saved by the fact that everything typically Just > Works makes up for the few additional manual steps during upgrades, and > Nick Holland is so kind to supply very thorough upgradeXY.html documents > for every release, outlining any possible "gotcha"s. > > Moritz > -- Bill Chmura
