OpenBSD 3.1 End Of Life

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."

Comments

So what you're saying...

[aridhol]

Is that OpenBSD 3.1 is DEAD! But it will be resurrected as 3.3.

OK this gave me a SHOCK!!

[mnmn]

I thought its the EOL for OpenBSD.

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

How dare they??!?

[Randolpho]

How dare they stop supporting an old version like that? What's their problem? Who do they think they are, MICROSOFT?!?!???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!

BSD 3.1 is dying!!!

[mcgroarty]

Well... I mean... sorry.

Oh, just mod me down and get it over with. :-)

Easy update?

[saintlupus]

$ 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

Re:Easy update?

[glitchvern]

The Upgrade-minifaq has a list of steps to go through for upgrading from 3.0 to OpenBSD-Current. According to 3.2's INSTALL.i386 upgrades for that version are only supported from the immediate previous release. I would follow the steps listed in the minifaq for Upgrading from 3.0. Grab etc31.tgz from ftp, untar it in your home directory or where ever and diff -r it and the old /etc and /var's on the machine for obvious things that need changing. Then I would grab the install bootdisk for 3.1 release and use the upgrade choice. Then follow the steps listed in the minifaq for Upgrading from 3.1, grab etc32.tgz, untar it, diff it and the newly changed /etc and /var making the obvious changes, grab the install bootdisk for 3.2 and use the upgrade choice there. At that point you are running 3.2-release and can either follow the directions in the mini-faq for upgrading to 3.2-stable (You won't need to follow Upgrading from 3.2 for stable), -current (You will need to follow Upgrading from 3.2 and Upgrading from 3.3), or just wait for 3.3's emminent release and use the method discussed above to upgrade to that. While the "make world" method does exist it will not easily work on an upgrade from 3.0 due to the numerous changes to the compiler and toolchain.

Re:End of Life: *BSD is dying

[sx10]

Actually...

Netcraft now confirms
BSD holds 24 of the 25 longest uptime records. The top two servers have been up four and a half years without a reboot.

Fact: BSD does it longer!

It's already dead

[vesamies]

Get the facts straight.

OpenBSD 3.1 *End Of Life*

[borgdows]

I won't believe you until Netcraft confirms it!!

That is to say

[deadfishhotmail.com]

Well...ok...so Netcraft proves that BSD is still dying but very slowly!

Ok ok, so I'm just Trolling, Ed

Re:You basturds

[Pharmboy]

Look, does slashdot also post articles about how redhat 5.1 is "dead". Fuckers.

actually redhat announced that it is EOLing all versions one year after the intro of the next version, even for those of us that pay for support for our current 7.2- systems. We have talked about this in several areas, although I don't see a particular article posted on it.

But it has been talked about a fair amount.