On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:43:56AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have noticed that the OpenBSD team puts a lot of emphasis on
> using binary packets rather than building from ports, which I
> think IMHO is good, but why is it that there is no binary kernel
> updates, rather than patching the kernel from source?
Among the several likely reasons I can think of, one obvious one is
that there simply isn't enough hardware or free development time to
manage that infrastructure. It takes time and work to make binary
patches, and OpenBSD isn't as large (or as well-funded) a project as
Debian, which you mention later.
[...]
> Last week management decided to go back to using Debian on some of
> our servers due to them being easy to upgrade including kernel and
> basesystem upgrades.
OpenBSD is quite easy to upgrade if you have a build host for your
network. Setting one up on a spare box is rather straightforward
(release(8), among other things).
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