Ladies,
some of you may remember the life cycle questions I had asked to this
list a few months ago. In that time people partly felt offended by my
questions related to OpenBSD's six month cycle compared to long life
cycles supported by vendors like Novell and Redhat (for linux, at least).
But, a few of you took the time and tried to explain to me how easy,
smooth and consistent an OS upgrade with OpenBSD would be (instead of
flaming) and why security is always related to progress etc. I am very
grateful for that.
Since pure theory is never convincing for me, I now took the chance and
upgrade 3.7 to 3.8 on my carp firewall setup. And all I wanted to tell
you here is that you all were right: It is not just smooth, consistent
and easy - it's really fun! The entire upgrade took me less than an hour
without one microsecond of down time. Cool.
Thanks again,
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Stephan A. Rickauer
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Universitdt / ETH Z|rich
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