Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:26:36 -0800 From: Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... Message-ID: <19991123092636.A47078@mushhaven.net> In-Reply-To: <1797.943377479@localhost> References: <85903pw3fn.fsf@lflat.dp.ua> <1797.943377479@localhost>
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> Hm, I know few people who think twice before choosing FreeBSD for > their needs. They think versions change too fast. For some this is > a sign of bad stability (heh...) others just scared of necessity of > following the releases. Then they are, really, people who are making their decisions with no regard to facts, which is not the problem of the FreeBSD programmers to fix. -stable is just that, stable. FreeBSD doesn't do a release every three months because it crashes if they don't, they do it because there are new features moved in that have been tested enough to be considered safe for a production environment. You can't have progress while not having releases to add the functionality. If the people you discuss cannot realise that, then either you need to correct them and explain why there are 'many' versions of FreeBSD, or else cater to their fears, insecurities, and rash judgements and install NT or Solaris, which have new 'versions' rarely, but have many patches to fix their problems. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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