Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Oct 2008 20:04 UTC
The OpenBSD team has released OpenBSD 4.4. "As in our previous releases, 4.4 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system." Information on how you can obtain OpenBSD can be found on the OpenBSD website.
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RE[4]: Another great release
by 0brad0 on Sun 2nd Nov 2008 14:56
in reply to "RE[3]: Another great release"
Member since:2007-05-05
Sure, but reality being what it is... hopefully this won't be such an issue in the future.
It won't change, period. The only people who make a big deal about this are the idiot NVIDIA fanbois who were dumb enough to buy systems with such GPUs. They
deserve to be screwed and with the way things have been going with NVIDIA lately they surely are.
That word, 'easy', I don't think it means what you think it means.
Yes, it does. It is that easy.
Seriously though, perhaps that is much more robust than what you get in most Linuxes, but I wouldn't call it easy. In here, we usually upgrade the whole system in a single command without needing to reboot.
But I'll see for myself.
He is talking about upgrading between major releases of the OS. You have to reboot to load the new kernel with major releases of Linux-based OS's as well.
RE[5]: Another great release
by vegai on Sun 2nd Nov 2008 15:42
in reply to "RE[4]: Another great release"
Member since:2005-12-25
"
Sure, but reality being what it is... hopefully this won't be such an issue in the future.
Sure, but reality being what it is... hopefully this won't be such an issue in the future.
It won't change, period. The only people who make a big deal about this are the idiot NVIDIA fanbois who were dumb enough to buy systems with such GPUs. They
deserve to be screwed and with the way things have been going with NVIDIA lately they surely are.
"
Oh, I meant that I wish in the future we don't have to resort to closed source to get high quality drivers.
But thanks for demonstrating a point about the OpenBSD community for us :-)
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2005-12-25
Indeed, OpenBSD does not allow blobs for drivers. We are very firm about that, and for good reasons.
Sure, but reality being what it is... hopefully this won't be such an issue in the future.
Since a couple of releases, upgrading packages is as simple as can be. The package system checks which packages are out of date and offers to upgrade them. This includes dependency checks and all that. Also, a lot of ports are available as pre-built packages.
Good that they have finally fixed this. I will have to check this out.
Upgrading the base system always has been easy: boot install media an choose "upgrade".
That word, 'easy', I don't think it means what you think it means.
Seriously though, perhaps that is much more robust than what you get in most Linuxes, but I wouldn't call it easy. In here, we usually upgrade the whole system in a single command without needing to reboot.
But I'll see for myself.
Edited 2008-11-02 13:31 UTC