From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 15:28:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5A237B404 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:28:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247D543E9C for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:28:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 69019 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2002 23:28:10 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Nov 2002 23:28:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3DE16028.2060600@liwing.de> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:26:32 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: questions , current Subject: using 5.0-RELEASE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, just a question to the possibilies using 5.0-RELEASE. In the "early adopters guide" (chapter 1) it's written, that 5.0-RELEASE should be as stable as possible to "getting a large number of users to test". But if it's not recommented to use it in production environments, what test results do you expect? Wouldn't it better to say: 5.0-CURRENT is not recommented for production environments (as it's said 'bout using -STABLE blindly), 5.0-RELEASE may be used in non-critical environment, but heavily use of backup tool is recommented? I know many companies located in Halle (where we resides) which are using linux, not because it's more stable but because SuSE tells: it's 8.0 and we tested and it's great. The simply believe the recommendation of SuSE (or whoever) and if sth. fails, they think: Hmm - nothing paid, who really cares? And if I take a look to may AIX box, FBSD 5.0-CURRENT is more stable than my AIX 4.3.3, because of the ports tree (in AIX I must do all by myself). Bye, Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message