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.
