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I'm happy that the OA found something that made them happy, but this paragraph caught my eye... "OpenBSD was my first choice. I’ve used it for many many years

I'm happy that the OA found something that made them happy, but this paragraph caught my eye... "OpenBSD was my first choice. I’ve used it for many many years in firewalling or routing contexts, I used to use it as a desktop – but the upgrade process sort of killed it for me. I didn’t want to deal with patching and recompiling my OS, or remembering to look at a web page for errata (or writing a script to do that for me.)" Binary updates are available for the stable release of OpenBSD from M:Tier https://stable.mtier.org/ https://stable.mtier.org/ Just thought I'd mention this. I have no connection with M:Tier other than that of a grateful free-loader &c

cperciva 11y ago
Binary updates are available for the stable release of OpenBSD from M:Tier Those updates are only useful to OpenBSD users who trust third-party binary blobs. I'm not sure that's a very large set...
- keithpeter 11y ago
  Valid point, perhaps I'm too trusting as a Desktop sort of person.
- tedunangst 11y ago
  Not really third party; just openbsd developers wearing a different hat.
  - cperciva 11y ago
    I didn't realize the people behind that were OpenBSD developers. But don't you make a distinction between the project and its members? In FreeBSD we're very clear about things coming from the project itself (and built on project-managed hardware) vs. things coming from individual developers.
    - tedunangst 11y ago
      Correct. It's not a project effort, but not very much would change if it were.
- jmnicolas 11y ago
  Well when you come from OSX, trusting third-party binary blobs shouldn't be a big problem.