Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:30:33 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Brennan Stehling" <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: <kstewart@urx.com>, "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" <root@pukruppa.de>, "Bill Schoolcraft" <bill@wiliweld.com>, "Eric Colburn" <ecolburn@seeitfirst.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.3 FreeBSD Message-ID: <056501c0b25e$eeb0ad80$8300a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103211711530.45058-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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> It is best to lag behind the releases by a > few months so that you can learn from other people's problems and then > upgrade to the STABLE branch just as soon as you get the new RELEASE. You > will save yourself a lot of headaches. > Where this all started was a query as to why CVSUP is regarded by many asthe holy grail of FreeBSD. By far the best uptimes I've had from FreeBSD were base RELEASE installations & no CVSUP. Maybe there is some advantage for "cutting edge" people but judging from the problems reported by a heap of non-geeks, users who prefer stability & reliability over having all the latest bells & whistles may well be better off installing RELEASE versions & leaving them untouched til the next RELEASE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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