On 25 Mar 2018, Z. Ero wrote: > Is 6.3 release almost here? Is that why? If you are using your > computer for production and are not actively developing / debugging > OpenBSD why would you run a current snapshot rather than the stable > release? Just curious.
It's good to run a snapshot at least somewhere to help spot bugs and to test fixes: then one can give the developers prompt feedback and save them wondering if one's issue is still valid. Sometimes support gets added, sometimes regressions get fixed: hence the many suggestions to "try a current snapshot", often with reference to some commit in which a problem was addressed. I'm sure it must help if new bug reports don't all roll in at the last minute before a planned release. Where the latest stable works fine for the production system, which it typically does if one chooses the hardware with care, then yes I run the stable version. I can still test on one of the similar systems I'd swap in if production failed though. -- Mark
