On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:44:46 -0500 David Noel <david.i.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But now > that I'm administering 6 of them I'm really starting to get annoyed by > the whole process: rebuild kernel... rebuild world... reboot, and then > pray that it doesn't blow up in my face (as it often does). Perhaps you could try freebsd-update: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html > Does this mean that I could theoretically have > gotten away with a year and a half uptime? You can theoretically get away with a decade of uptime if you do not do upgrades which require reboot for so long. > What's the catch here? I'm > sorry but I'm incredulous by how good it sounds so I have to ask. OpenBSD is released every 6 months, in between there are patches: http://www.openbsd.org/errata53.html It is up to you to decide if you are going to patch once a week or once a year, and if you are going to compile from source or do binary upgrades. Either way, I don't think there is a system which is "secure" after a year without updating. > does it sound like OpenBSD could be the one for me? It definitely could, but not for the reasons you stated :) -- Marko Cupać
