Andrew Grillet
2021-04-22 07:28:35 UTC
One of the key strengths of OpenBSD that it is well engineered - and
consequently robust
and reliable.
Management of the release engineering is key to this. (Cathedral, not bizarre).
However, release engineering is no longer mentioned on the home page
of www.openbsd.org,
and I could find no mention of it anywhere on the site.
I wanted to know approximately when the next release would be
available to decide
whether to install 6.8, a snapshot or wait for 6.9 for a machine I
have prepped and am
going to configure "real soon now".
I also can no longer find architecture-specific change logs (to see if
work has been
done that might affect Sparc64 installs, and make things different from when I
installed 6.8 on this hardware last time).
*** I think it is worth making this info more visible both for
existing users (eg me) and
potential future users ***
I believe there will be future users (Netcraft notwithstanding) -
people are often p'd off
by other operating systems introducing new features they don't need
which clobber
the old ones they do - and might want to know there is a better way!
(Even if they don't use Sparc64). [Written in anticipation of a
general drift away from
Intel and towards Arm by both server and workstation users]. There is
also the possibility
that people who have been hit by malware might want a more secure solution.
regards
Andrew
consequently robust
and reliable.
Management of the release engineering is key to this. (Cathedral, not bizarre).
However, release engineering is no longer mentioned on the home page
of www.openbsd.org,
and I could find no mention of it anywhere on the site.
I wanted to know approximately when the next release would be
available to decide
whether to install 6.8, a snapshot or wait for 6.9 for a machine I
have prepped and am
going to configure "real soon now".
I also can no longer find architecture-specific change logs (to see if
work has been
done that might affect Sparc64 installs, and make things different from when I
installed 6.8 on this hardware last time).
*** I think it is worth making this info more visible both for
existing users (eg me) and
potential future users ***
I believe there will be future users (Netcraft notwithstanding) -
people are often p'd off
by other operating systems introducing new features they don't need
which clobber
the old ones they do - and might want to know there is a better way!
(Even if they don't use Sparc64). [Written in anticipation of a
general drift away from
Intel and towards Arm by both server and workstation users]. There is
also the possibility
that people who have been hit by malware might want a more secure solution.
regards
Andrew