From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 29 7:16:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from knight.cons.org (knight.cons.org [194.233.237.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1508037C11E for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:16:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@knight.cons.org) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by knight.cons.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA14280; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:16:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:16:09 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: Didier Derny , Martin Cracauer , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Let 3.x die ASAP? Message-ID: <20000329171609.A14243@cons.org> References: <007001bf9990$8d866a00$0200000a@danco> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <007001bf9990$8d866a00$0200000a@danco>; from dan@mostgraveconcern.com on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:07:50AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folk, I really don't see a need to go into flamewars here. You won't reach any conclusion in uptime wars and/or in must/non-need-to support of old hardware. There are perfectly stable 3.x machines out there and *there* are enough hints that kernel instability raised somewhere between 3.1 and 3.4 for some and only some machines and that those are fixed in 4.0. As things stand now, there will be a 3.5 release with lowered public visibilty so that no new users jump on it and those who want 3.x can get it. If neccessary, a privately-burned CD can be shipped to them. So far I didn't see anything that isn't compatible with this way to proceed. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message