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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

TIL that OpenBSD (my "distro" of choice as a padawan professional security engineer circa '02) is somehow still going. What I learned in those years is the same lesson I learned watching the progression of Windows and the web: when software is situated so tightly on fine-grained contracts that it cannot upgrade seamlessly, it becomes a liability as surely as night follows day.

Anyway, this is WILD to my old self. After 15+ years of not getting it they learned...sot of?:

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade74.html