On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Steve Quinn <letter2st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > You're welcome. You will find it quickly very easy. Especially for desktop/workstation/laptop not much reasons to be on release/stable. I don't say that there are not use cases, but very small amount of those. > > > For BIOS I meant if there's something related to ACPI in fixes from > vendor. > > Oh, right, sorry. I will check > > Steve
