On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bod...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Using -current is easy, just start with latest snapshot from mirror and use
> snapshot path for packages in PKG_PATH as well. From that time on easy like
> with regular system. Plus is you have binary upgrades to new snapshot mostly
> everyday (if you want to) -> man sysmerge -> checking current.html page IF
> some manual intervention needed -> pkg_add -u . All of that takes like 15
> minutes or so, depends on speed of your network and interval how often you
> will update between snapshots. Generally more stable then some so called
> stable/lts/whatever distros and you have latest fixes.

My gosh Tomas, you are so incredibly helpful thank you.

I now have an avenue to supply a laptop to a Dev :-)
In parallel though, I'll still be taking this opportunity to learn
-current and other shiny new (to me) things

> For BIOS I meant if there's something related to ACPI in fixes from vendor.

Oh, right, sorry. I will check

Steve

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