On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 20:59 +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: > OpenBSD's a wonderful OS, but it's lack of easy upgradability is a > *disadvantage, not something to be proud of. And yes, there are good
Our Institute moved away from Linux servers always everwhere, just *because* of updates are unreliable. Very often we did an apt-get update or an yum bla, reboot, machine dead or fucked up otherwise. Ever upgraded from SLES10 to SP1->SP2->SP3? Good luck, on 50% of the SLES servers we had to *reinstall* or left them running unpatched. Great OS. By the way, we have >100 linux clients. Once a month, we do patching, because if we applied all patches in time, we would not do anything else anymore. We call it 'patch day'. Sounds familiar with what OS? Right. This Institute now runs >20 OpenBSD servers and I'll upgrade them all in half a day. Because I'm slow.
