From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 24 22:53:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E9B14CBA for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 22:53:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 24 May 1999 22:53:07 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Mike Smith" , "Sergey" Cc: Subject: RE: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 22:53:07 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bea672$dce52580$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <199905250541.WAA00380@dingo.cdrom.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you stopped to consider that users may just want to _use_ FreeBSD without having to follow the development? Have you considered that bad releases affect them? This is yet another piece of the 'Open Source' versus 'company supported' puzzle. DS > You write to tell us now that a release that was produced some four > months ago is (was?) unstable? > > Have you noticed that we've done another release since then? > > Have you stopped to consider that it isn't even slightly helpful to > report problems with FreeBSD _after_ a release? We depend on our users > to tell us about problems on the -stable branch before it's rolled into > a release, not afterwards. If you're not willing to take part in this > process, your complaints are likely to be ignored at the very least. > > I've checked this out on good hardware. And now can CLAIM that > > 3.1-R *really* have kernel problems on FreeBSD's "classic" > configuration. > > This bug causes TERRIBLE instability - panic in 24 hours. Even > Microsoft's > > OSes gives significantly better results > > > > > > > > This is mourning day for me - I CAN'T believe in stability of RELEASES > > any more... > > > > > > With best regards, Sergey. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message