[tor-bugs] #20688 [Webpages/Website]: OpenBSD missing from systems that 'work best' with relays

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#20688: OpenBSD missing from systems that 'work best' with relays
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 Reporter:  mulander          |          Owner:  cypherpunks
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  Medium            |      Milestone:  WebsiteV3
Component:  Webpages/Website  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal            |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  website-content   |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                    |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by gman999):

 > We should not recommend OpenBSD also because
 >OpenBSD does not provide any updates except you run -current which is not
 recommended either.
 >That is probably the reason why most OpenBSD relays run an outdated tor
 version.

 That's not accurate, if I'm reading your comment correctly, as someone
 who's run both OpenBSD -stable and -current nodes for a very long time.

 * For the stable version, OpenBSD updates the ports when there is a
 notable issue, but it does not generate updated packages. Therefore, one
 could run an updated Tor server on an OpenBSD -stable box as long as one
 uses the ports tree to maintain Tor.

 * Running -current as a Tor server is common also, as OpenBSD -current
 rarely has any issues.

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