On 2018/03/26 22:31, Z Ero wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: > > On 2018-03-25, Z Ero <zerotetrat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is 6.3 release almost here? Is that why? If you are using your > >> computer for production and are not actively developing / debugging > >> OpenBSD why would you run a current snapshot rather than the stable > >> release? Just curious. > > > > - easy access to newer packages, at the cost of a bit more work updating. > > > > - maybe you want new features from -current, or bug fixes that haven't > > been backported to -stable. > > I just don't want OpenBSD to turn into Linux where the fixation is on > newest shiny thing rather than doing code right. Sometimes I think > people who are excessively interested in bleeding edge features more > want an OS for tinkering with than an OS for production / work. I want > something stable to use. But to each his own.
I should have added another one: - making sure things are in good shape for the next release. Since OpenBSD has a single branch which is always expected to work, running -current is nothing like running a development branch of some other OS where new features are "matured" before bringing into mainline.
