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OpenBSD 6.1 released

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Re: OpenBSD 6.1 released

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Post by mrweasel »

Sadly I don't often get to play with OpenBSD, but every time I do I'm impressed by how coherent an operation system it is. You really get the feeling that the developers care about delivering a system with a unified expression, where everything is meant to be used together.

It's not just kernel bundled with a bunch of tools/programs which sort of seem to work together, but not in the same manor. Even FreeBSD have sometimes left me with the impression that the developers don't care about style and just import tools or subsystems at leave it at that, rather than making it feel like it belongs.

Re: OpenBSD 6.1 released

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Post by adamrt »

parfe wrote: post #19
l2dy wrote: post #2

New syspatch(8) utility for security and reliability binary updates to the base system.

http://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8 Thanks for highlighting this. For me, OpenBSD releases needed so few fixes that keeping the system up to date wrapped around, and become more of a hassle to deal with! I'd get an email and have to manually rebuild something. Watching yet another flood of compiler output started feeling like a huge waste of time, despite only happening once every month or two. For personal use, on deb…

You may already be familiar with but just in case: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

You can specify the types of updates to auto install (ie I use security updates only automatically).

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