Hot on the heels of the fresh #OpenBSD 7.6 release, I suppose a reprise of my "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." piece https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html is in order (also tracked, prettified at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html).

Major change to sysupgrade(8) behaviour https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240925110946 #openbsd #sysupgrade #pkg_add #upgrading #current #newrelease #development

How to Factory-Reset Your #Phone Before You Sell It

#Upgrading to a shiny new device? Here’s how to restore your old phone to its factory settings.
#privacy #security #factoryreset

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-reset-your-phone-before-you-sell-it/

Once you have installed #OpenBSD, updates and upgrades mainly involve running

$ doas syspatch

and

$ doas pkg_add -u

to update any packages.

$ doas sysupgrade

for the next release.

Some background on how things work:

Keeping Your OpenBSD System In Trim: A Works For Me Guide https://nxdomain.no/~peter/keeping_your_openbsd_system_in_trim.html (also prettified and G-tracked as https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2012/07/keeping-your-openbsd-system-in-trim.html)
You've Installed It. Now What? Packages! https://nxdomain.no/~peter/youve_installed_it_now_what_packages.html (prettified, G-tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/04/youve-installed-it-now-what-packages.html)
#sysadmin #upgrading