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Why OpenBSD's Release Process Works

Posted by timothy on from the those-slides-are-a-bit-dense dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule — 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function. Theo de Raadt explains in this presentation how the OpenBSD release process is managed (video) and why it has been such a success."

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  1. Re:Summary? by Burning1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not that that would be a bad thing. The majority of people in the world are average, by definition

    I cringe every time I see this statement. Your statement may be reasonable, but it's not correct 'by definition.'

    Let's take a small group of numbers:

    1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 0.

    If we average and round those numbers, we can say that that the average number is '4.'

    However, only 1/8th of those numbers are actually 4, and MOST of those numbers are not 4. In fact, it would be more correct to say that 'most of those numbers are 1' even though the numbers are not 1 on average.

    It would be technically correct to say 'By definition, most people are not exceptional.' I highly doubt that you'll find a lot of truly average people in the world.

  2. Re:It works? by ripratm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Stop trying to redefine the term "Operating System". The rest of what you said might have merit, but once you tried to force your (wrong) interpretation of "Operating System" onto others I lost interest. Please explain to me and others how Linux is not an operating system.

    No, he's correct. Linux is not an OS its a kernel, pure a simple. You can download the latest version of "Linux" from kernel.org but but you can't to anything with it. You can't burn it to an iso and boot it. Now Red Hat Linux is an operating system, because they bundle the kernel with GNU but "Linux" is not. OpenBSD is an OS, it contains a kernel PLUS everything else needed to perform functions. Linux is like car engine but with out the rest of the car is pretty useless.