On 11/30/13 20:04, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013, at 03:55 PM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 04:02:58PM -0500, John Hynes wrote: >>> OpenBSD 5.3 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Fri Sep 13 04:11:52 EDT 2013 >>> j...@hytronix-gw1.hytronix.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/ >>> GENERIC.MP >> Try 5.4 or -current. >> >> Issues with non-home-compiled kernels are more interesting. > I thought as long as it was an unmodified GENERIC or GENERIC.MP that the > issue was still valid. Is this no longer the case? > You want to use the latest release whenever possible for things. If you find a specific problem in 5.3 it might have been touched upon for some other reason.
If there were an infinite number of developers it might be different, but there aren't. So the latest release (and -current is even better) should be used if possible. Looking at http://openbsd.org/plus54.html shows quite a few changes. --STeve Andre'
