Lars Noodin wrote on Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:14:41PM +0200: > However, since OpenBSD is a small project and to stay focused needs to > drop legacy releases, I can accept the need to migrate every 18 months > or so.
Upgrading every 18 months is definitely too seldom. For roughly the last 6 months, you will either need to backport security fixes yourself, which will at times be highly non-trivial and in any case a lot of completely useless work, or you will run unpatched. In my experience, upgrading every 6 months is better than upgrading every 12 months. It is not more work to do: You need to do both upgrades one after the other anyway, and you need to adapt the system configuration after each step anyway. Half of the time, you will have an overall better system. The danger to forget details about how to efficiently do the upgrade is smaller if you do it twice a year. [ order of arguments inverted because the following is off-topic ] > Oh, and APT rocks. [...] The proactive security bit, strict open > source and simplicity are apparent in both. Huh? You must be joking. The part about "simplicity" is a nice laugh. :-) The part about "open source" is rather a matter for sadness, though.
