On 9/6/05, Stephan A. Rickauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason why I bother this list is that I am impressed of OpenBSD from > the technical point of view. I like its consistency and purity. But in > business environments or comparable organizations where money is an > issue, one needs to think about system management very carefully, since > it has a direct impact on money as well. That's why I can't understand > people can really live with the 6 months lifecycle.
I (as many others) use some OpenBSD servers in a business environment. I recently upgraded a server from 3.5 to 3.7 (I chose to skip a release). upgrading the system lasted for about 60 mins, including downloading the new release. about 45 mins of these I spent checking things in /etc (I could have been quicker, but I wanted to use those new pf features ;) application upgrades did cost about 8 hours, with about 6.5 hours for one sngle application which configuration had changed. I think, a firewall could upgrade in about 20 mins. the first one. if you more than one, and they are similiar, its more like 5-10 mins for each following. --knitti
