Bob Beck wrote: >> boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. > > Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from > that release tarball. > > man release > > to figure out how to do that. > > Now you may ask, why don't we do that? We simply do not have the > resources and time to > devote racks of machines, developer time, and internet bandwidth to > building stable somewhere > for all architectures, and distributing it securely. > > Us (the developers) would rather spend our time improving the os and > our resources at > distributing it and making it better than expending a lot of effort > because someone is > too lazy to rtfm and patch something themselves. If you want push > butan, get os, please > go run windows 7 or OSuX.. you'll be much happier, as will we because > the neediness > of our user community goes down. > > The fact that you have to not be lazy to use OpenBSD is important to > us. Unlike a commercial > OS, or linux, we don't measure our success in how popular it is, or if > we're going to replace the > evil microsoft any time soon. we *WANT* needy lazy users to use those > other OS's so we can > concentrate on making something that works and is stable for people > who really need it, like > ourselves. >
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -- Mark Twain Here, like so many other situations and places in this world, people are feeding for free (or nearly so) and bitching about the fare. Enough already.
