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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:38:21 -0800
To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, "Michael V. Harding" <mvh@netcom.com>
From: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>
Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' 
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This is ridiculous sounding. Everyone is doing a great job on FreeBSD. I
buy the CD's and just store them and never use them just to support FreeBSD
at large. I always load the OS from the ftp.freebsd.org site and then
propagate it out to other machines...

...just thought I'd flame not.

Thanx,
Randy Katz

>:-  The result to a long time CD  subscriber like myself is that I have
>:- _never_ received a FreeBSD CD that is  useful to me by itself.
>
>Say Haleluja.
>
>My advice, which I'm sure everyone will ignore, is for Jordan and
>friends to 'fess up and admit that the current state of "stable" isn't
>stable enough for cutting a CD release, re-freeze now and only allow
>bug fixes for the next 30-45 days (including fixes for the slice
>stuff) and *then* cut the release.  I'm pretty sure everyone *buying*
>the CD's would rather a delay than [another] less-than-completely-stable
>release.


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