having read and understood that, you should know that for most people
-current is more than good enough to work with. I am always running
-current in my production system and do not see any major (nor minor)
problem. Well, if you want to try the veeeery lastest drivers of X
then you'll have to ask for them explicitly and do it all by yourself
(compile, CVS etc) instead of "just" downloading the kernel from a
snapshot obsd ftp server.
I know that comparisons are stupid but I am an ex linux user and I
have never seen/ had the robustness of -current in any -stable release
of the linux world...

So, if you want e.g. the newest azalia codec, don't hesitate and run
-current. It's also a nice way to support the project... this way you
help to test the driver

Cheers,

Pau

2007/9/12, Greg Thomas <get.lists@gmail.com>:
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> On 9/11/07, Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide@sacrificumdeo.net> wrote:
> > Hrm, I think this clarifies one thing...
> >
> > deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org said:
> > > 1. Once you run a -current, you cannot go backwards.  This is repeated
> > >    over and over in the FAQ.
> > > 2. New features do not get moved into -stable.
> >
> > I was under the impression that the current snapshots were still under the 4.2
> > heading, and as such, were not actually ahead of the 4.2 release. I guess I
> > misunderstood here. Of course, I'm well aware of the particular FAQ. :-)
> >
> > The new features I am talking about are not the features after stable, but the
> > feature list that is currently listed in 4.2. Those are features that I want
> > to use now, but I want to make sure that I can move easily to 4.2-STABLE when
> > it is released. Are you saying that there is no way for me to get the features
> > in 4.2 now without running -CURRENT, which will require me to reinstall (as
> > opposed to upgrade) when 4.2 is released?
>
> If you're running recent snapshots then you are running -CURRENT and
> as Theo mentions above:
>
> "...but beware since -current is now ahead of what the upcoming
> release will be, and that may not be what you want -- almost a
> thousand commits have already happened to it."
>
> -RELEASE would have been sent to the presses awhile back and
> development continues on from 4.2.  You're past that point.  The
> options are to continue with -CURRENT or start fresh with -RELEASE.
>
> Greg
>
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