Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:05:25 -0700 From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> To: "'Brad Knowles'" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 5.0 newbies: FreeBSD's future [was: Re: Tracking -CURRENT] Message-ID: <007401c30f75$5e4227d0$6601a8c0@VAIO650> In-Reply-To: <a05210609bad60e0f0338@[10.0.1.2]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > At 4:00 PM -0700 2003/04/30, Lucky Green wrote: [...] > Are you writing this as a member of -core? Is this the > official > policy of the FreeBSD project? I am neither a member of FreeBSD -core nor am I a committer. I have no official status with the FreeBSD project of any kind. I am merely a user who happened to notice certain patterns that I suspect may not yet be universally recognized. > > Early-adopters are trying 5.0-RELEASE. It tends to soon > become clear > > to them that 5.0-RELEASE does not meet their expectations for > > stability. > > Not surprising. But this is not -STABLE, so if they > want to try > 5.x, they need to be willing to read and follow the -current mailing > list, and they should be willing to demonstrate the proper use of the > appropriate search tools and archives of -current and -cvs, before > posting to this list with a problem. It may not be surprising to you that an official release version of FreeBSD is not stable. Nor may this be surprising to the regular readers of -current. I can assure you, in case this isn't clear from the question this list has seen over the last few months, that this fact can come as a surprise to some users that have utilized 4.x FreeBSD in the past, but are new to 5.0. I am simply appealing to folks to please go easy on recent 5.0 users. If it weren't for the fact that FreeBSD just had a major version release, those questions would go to -stable, or perhaps even -questions. But since neither -stable nor -questions presently are lists on which questions about 5.0 tend to find answers, -current is seeing posts from those that otherwise would not even consider posting to -current. --Lucky Green
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