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Old 10th October 2013
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Originally Posted by Fugu_bar View Post
I probably will reinstall OpenBSD 5.4 when it is officially released, though the current snapshot of OpenBSD 5.4 is sufficient for a new user such as myself to become acclimatised to OpenBSD for the time being.
Installing OpenBSD 5.4-release after installing OpenBSD 5.4-current is a step backward. You would be moving from newer code to older code. Again, the head of the CVS tree where -current snapshots are obtained today has an additional two months of development & bug fixes over what will be found in 5.4-release.

The code base for OpenBSD 5.4-release is already frozen. No new code will be checked into that CVS branch. Ever.

It may be worth your time to study Section 5.1 of the official FAQ which describes OpenBSD's naming convention of -release, -stable, & -current, & how these relate to the CVS code repository.

Last edited by ocicat; 10th October 2013 at 10:23 PM. Reason: missed reference to 5.4-release
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