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		wooger on Nov 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Native OpenBSD hypervisor hits -current From my usage: * There is no supported upgrade path from stable release to stable release. * If you want regular updates to to packages, you need to be running current. * It has much better driver and power management support than FreeBSD, but not as good as Linux, and is painfully slow in some contexts due to the various areas where technology is lagging: - SMP - Filesystems * They've done the work to make the latest version of Gnome Shell run, but it doesn't perform well, and is not close to the experience on Linux with identical hardware.

throwaway2048 on Nov 23, 2015 [–]

You can upgrade from -stable to next -release, then to -stable, ive done it for years.

https://stable.mtier.org/ offers package and base binary updates for the present release.

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