Hi,

On Friday, 16. March 2007 12:09, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> I am not following anything - just installed OpenBSD 4.0 from a CD. What
> should I follow, then?

That's your choice.

If you just want a stable and reliable OpenBSD then install -release (that's 
what you did). If you want to keep it patched without tracking the 
development of OpenBSD, then follow -stable. Just apply the errata you can 
find on the OpenBSD website.

A nice newbie site explaining this with examples is www.openbsd101.com, if you 
don't understand the OpenBSD FAQ.

> In other operating system the concept of upgrading is straightforward -
> Windows ask you and you press OK, in Gentoo Linux you type a magic sequence
> of magic commands and your system is up to date.  But in OpenBSD it seems
> that the versions are not a sequence, but a tree with a lot of one way
> streets and that's what confuses me.

OMG, you're comparing OpenBSD to Gentoo and you're still complaining?! You 
can't be serious. But let's put it this way: what you do in Gentoo is roughly 
the same you'd do when you follow -current. Or in other words: there's no way 
to just have a stable and reliable system that doesn't move, when you're 
using Gentoo. As a sidenote: I've been using Gentoo for almost two years and 
never have I wasted more time just to keep a computer running than with 
Gentoo...

And I certainly won't get started about the Windows comparison...

The concept of "upgrading" (an "upgrade" is something different actually than 
what you are obviously thinking about) is perfectly straightforward in 
OpenBSD - if you care to actually read the documentation that comes along 
with OpenBSD. I don't know any other operating system, that does 
documentation so well.

good luck,

Tobias W.

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