Re: openbsd or netbsd alpha firewall

* Jim Faulkner <[email protected]> [2009-08-02 22:39]:
> OpenBSD is quite easy to setup, however long term maintenance is not  
> trivial.

what? i run over hundred openbsd systems. the long term naintainance
is pretty much trivial.

> Since only the current and previous OpenBSD releases are  
> supported by the developers, and releases are made every 6 months, you  
> will need to conduct an upgrade once a year.  This is not a simple  
> process, as you can see in this OpenBSD 4.4 to 4.5 upgrade guide:
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade45.html

upgrades are nearly trivial. the upgrade guide is just very very good
and detailed.

on average I need about 2 minutes for an upgrade per machine.

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