Hi, I’ve recently discovered OpenBSD after using Linux for more than 15 years. I wrote a blog article with my impressions and some other users suggested me to patch faq9.html to help other users migrating.
This patch is regarding the fact that there are no binary updates, which is a given thing in most Linux distributions, and some tips on how to keep the system updated. Since English is not my first language, before merging the patch, please make sure the wording is proper. If you think the issue may be interesting to elaborate on, I could write a guide of improve on stable.html to help newcomers adapt to this method of keeping up to date. Here’s the whole article if anybody’s interested: http://cfenollosa.com/blog/openbsd-from-a-veteran-linux-user-perspective.html Thanks! Carlos PS: This is my first patch, I’m sending it inline as suggested by http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/patching-obsd. Apologies if this is not the right way. ? patch-faq9.diff Index: faq9.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq9.html,v retrieving revision 1.113 diff -u -p -r1.113 faq9.html --- faq9.html 11 May 2015 11:18:30 -0000 1.113 +++ faq9.html 28 Jun 2015 17:19:45 -0000 @@ -133,6 +133,18 @@ The tree is occasionally broken, but thi will be corrected rapidly, not something that will be permitted to continue. +<li>There are no binary security updates. The team has no resources +to constantly compile binaries for all architectures, they do it only +every -release. Thus, unlike Linux distributions, which come with a +package manager which takes care of updates (<tt>yum</tt>, +<tt>apt-get</tt>, etc), there is no single command to update the system +to the latest binary status. Keeping up-to-date (including security errata) +is a bit different. You can either (1) upgrade every -release, +(2) apply patches from<a href="../errata">errata</a> or (3) follow +<a href="../stable">-stable</a>. Binary updates may be obtained +from <a href="https://stable.mtier.org";>a third party</a> for the i386 +and amd64 architectures.</li> + <li>OpenBSD has gone through heavy and continual security auditing to ensure the quality (and thus, security) of the code.
