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I would suggest Slackware, but may be a bit of work for you. But if I understand you, OpenBSD may be the one. upgrades are simple, install is simple (unless yo
by jmclnx 4y ago
I would suggest Slackware, but may be a bit of work for you.
But if I understand you, OpenBSD may be the one. upgrades are simple, install is simple (unless you need GUIs) and patches are simple. I never had a patch break anything.
To upgrade non-base (installed) software just do a "pkg_add -u" once in a while. You decide when to do that. Plus docs are never out of date.
If you go with OpenBSD you should subscribe to mail list "announce@openbsd.org"
But you may or may not have hardware for it, if you have Nvidia Graphics, you really cannot use OpenBSD.
good luck
- anonymousnotme 4y agoI can second this; I have a few boxes that I have upgraded from 5.7 to 7.3; minimal issues. Upgrades just seem to work. (One warning is some really old versions sized /usr or /usr/local (I think) too small for some of the newer versions, so I had to some clean up by hand to make space because the kernel relinking after each boot takes a decent amount of disk space that those older smaller partition have trouble handling.) One can also do "pkg_add -vnUu" before upgrading to know what will be done (v=verbose, n=don't install, say what will be done, U=update dependencies). One can also use sysclean to help clean up old libraries and shared libraries left behind to get more disk space back. Also, run "pkg_delete -a" to remove unused dependencies.