On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:08:02PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:40:48AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > However, is it correct that when a new release comes out every six > > months, you have to reboot into that? How long does an upgrade from one > > release to the next take? > > Yes, you must reboot and perform the upgrade. If you read the upgrade > guide and get your ducks in a row you can be all done *easily* in 30 > minutes. If there were some kind of contest with cash prizes it could > probably be done much quicker. However, it's much more important to get > the steps right than to do it quickly, IMHO.
So on a production machine, it has to be off-line for 30 minutes every six months (not complaining, just clarifying). > history you can pick up some interesting bits around the net. The > Wikipedia pages on this aren't as bad as they could be. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution I've read them and they seem like a good introduction. I'd like to track down the origional BSD SMM (assuming that it was released under a BSD licence), from before it was printed by O'Reily and hense copywritten. Thanks Doug.
