On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:35:19 +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: > Well, I am thinking of using OpenBSD for our firewalls. Those I do want > to upgrade regularly. Not because of features, but because of patches.
You will be rewarded by this choice; I am sure ! And still, I cannot understand the writers of arguments 'compared to'. Having something out there that is worse, does not make you automatically the invincible market leader. The OpenBSD boxes that I run need the least intervention. But still, there could be even less. Patches are a good example. When I download a patch for the first box, I rather read and study and understand what is going on and apply the steps described in the header one by one, manually. For all the other boxes, I simply have no real time to sit next to them and wait for some 'make' to have finished. Also, here, the most obvious solution is a script doing this automatically on demand: checking some URL for new patches, download, and run the header as script. Including recompiling the kernel (if required). Me passing by that box, check the success and reboot (if needed) manually should be quite enough. I don't see a need to sit next to the boxes again and again, issuing and waiting for the always same commands for always the same patch. I am too lousy as coder; and I can imagine that someone else has written a perfect script for this; so why not include this as utility for everyone to use ?
