Lifecycle question

["Stephan A. Rickauer" <stephan_(_dot_)_rickauer_(_at_)_ini_(_dot_)_phys_(_dot_)_ethz_(_dot_)_ch>]

Currently, our Institute investigates alternative operating systems 
compared to Linux. Apart from technical issues we are also concerned 
about lifecycle management as well. We simply don't want to 
reinstall/upgrade an entire OS all half year, which is the main reason, 
why we will no longer use half-commercial system like SuSE (= 2 year 
lifecycle for 'free' version).

The question is how you OpenBSD guys handle the upgrade issue. From the 
website I learned that -STABLE is maintained for only one year (= two 
releases). Given that upgrading by skipping one release is not 
recommended, does that mean one needs to upgrade the entire OS every 
half year? I couldn't get that from the website.

Thanks for helping,

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 Stephan A. Rickauer

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