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OpenBSD 3.1 End Of Life

Posted by michael on from the openbsd-3.1-is-dying dept.

Dan writes "OpenBSD team's Miod Vallat says that due to the upcoming release of OpenBSD 3.3, the 3.1-STABLE branch will have no more fixes committed to its branch after June 1, 2003 and should therefore be considered out of regular maintenance."

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  1. OK this gave me a SHOCK!! by mnmn · · Score: 1, Insightful


    I thought its the EOL for OpenBSD.

    And I was just gettin interested with all the OpenBSD stories in slashdot these days.

    --
    "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
  2. Easy update? by saintlupus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    $ uname -a
    OpenBSD yellow 3.0 GENERIC#94 i386

    Hmm. That's not a good sign.

    Does anyone know if there's an easy way to update a box to a new version of OpenBSD without having to reinstall everything? Something like the "make world" from FreeBSD would be great.

    --saint