{"id":464,"date":"2002-09-08T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-09T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibik.org\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2002-09-08T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-09T01:30:00","slug":"464","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/2002\/09\/08\/464\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I have another project to add to my list. Hopefully I will finish one of these this semester.<\/p>\n

For the sake of argument, I will define the “lifespan” of an operating system to be from the day it is released to the public (either for purchase or for download) to the time *two* new versions of the operating system have come out. An example would be OpenBSD 2.9<\/a>. It was released on June 1st of 2001. Since OpenBSD 3.1<\/a> (the second version past 2.9) came out on May 19th of 2002, the lifespan of OpenBSD 2.9 was 06\/01\/2001 to 05\/19\/2002.<\/p>\n

Over the lifespan of OpenBSD 2.9, there were 27 different patches. That might not seem like much, but that is over two patches a month. For a company that has many servers, that could be a lot of patching. Likewise, the current version of OpenBSD (3.1) has 14 patches already. That version had only been available for under three months when the last patch was issued.<\/p>\n

Now that I have that cleared up, time for the actual project: An OpenBSD version of Windows Update<\/a>. Since no self-respecting BSD admin would go to a website for their patches, BSDUpdate would be a command-line tool. It would check the current state of your system, verify which patches were needed, and download them. The tool can then install the patches and restart services as\/if necessary. The tool could also be put in “automatic mode” and placed into a cron job for completely seamless updating.<\/p>\n

This is actually a very easy project (but also time consuming). Nevertheless, I will be damned if I ever finish it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have another project to add to my list. Hopefully I will finish one of these this semester. For the sake of argument, I will define the “lifespan” of an operating system to be from the day it is released to the public (either for purchase or for download) to the time *two* new versions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}