Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:27:10 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Alexey Karagodov <karagodov@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Disappointed Message-ID: <ef10de9a0604060727t3dd691f4haebac67fa834553f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44350FDF.1060206@gmx.de> References: <20060405200341.GD14126@math.jussieu.fr> <20060405200727.GA28371@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060405201500.GE14126@math.jussieu.fr> <20060405211154.GA30089@soaustin.net> <c7aff4ef0604060458u1a019e0dna740f61e53299c25@mail.gmail.com> <44350FDF.1060206@gmx.de>
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On 4/6/06, [LoN]Kamikaze <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> wrote: > > > Alexey Karagodov wrote: > > hi. > > i think, this unstablity happaning just because developers trying to ma= ke > > two systems at one time, one is 6.0 and another 7.0 current and they > > supporting old version, lower then 6.0 > > i want to ask developers, why you developing new system, 7.0, if you do= n't > > finish old, 6.0 ?! > > finish 6.0, make it work, and upgrade it to 7.0 and to 8.0 and to 9.0 a= nd so > > on ... > > what so new and revolutionary in 7.0 in comparison with 6.0 ?! > > to use your system i must be a DEVELOPER, but i don't have so much time= ! i > > don't want to develope! i want to use, i want to help you with some adv= ise ( > > e.g. what feature to add, what feature to change etc), i can and i want= to > > share some of my hardware to feet your needs, make a mirror, make a tes= t > > server/workstation/notebook/PDA etc. i'm not an freebsd developer. i'm = just > > admin and a user. > > your system is most greatest i ever seen. another wonderful system is > > SOLARIS. > > but your's is so unstable ... > > All this is described in many places. It all comes down to this: if you > don't want to be a developer, JUST USE THE RELEASE BRANCH. That means > Releng_6_0 for now. > > Stable only means compatible to previous versions of the same branch. > Not that the system is stable. Maybe they/we should change the name of -STABLE to -APISTABLE or -ABISTABLE. I've always had to go out of my way to explain what -STABLE is to newbies that assumed it was stable.... changing this name should keep them off the developer branches. oh and we should change -CURRENT to -THISWILLBREAKYOURSYSTEM for all those Gentoo Linux type people. :-) 1 bad experience is equal to 10 good ones. -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/
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