On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere <patf...@davenulle.org> wrote: > Le Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:13:30 +0100, > Peter Hessler <phess...@theapt.org> a icrit : > > Hello, > >> On 2012 Feb 29 (Wed) at 11:54:13 +0100 (+0100), Patrick Lamaiziere >> wrote: :OpenBSD is not perfect too, it would be nice that pflow >> handles ipv6 >> >> pflow now handles ipv6 (in 5.1) > > That's cool! Thanks. > >> :and the support of one year is a bit short. But nothing is perfect. >> >> If you need support for longer than a year, you will need to contact a >> vendor offering openbsd support. > > I don't believe they will be able to support if the support is ended > upstream, only few are able to dig into the code. Sure, I will find tons > of them able to sell support. But if they sell some wind I can do it > myself for free. > > That was not a criticism, I understand well the release process on > OpenBSD and the limited ressources available. But this is something to > consider when you choose a system.
Bugs are in every system including OpenBSD. The question is how many of them comparing to other products and how many is mitigated because of other layers of protection available in OpenBSD. From that point of view 2 years old OpenBSD is better then latest Solaris or whatever :-) And if someone needs corporate support like 10 years then they have HA/clusters/...., right? So they can be fine even with OpenBSD to do update on node once a year. Regarding ABI support...paying good developer seems to be cheaper then support contracts offered by big vendors. > > Regards.
