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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 08:43:07 -0400
From:      jacobsm@customersvc.com (Mark Jacobs)
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? 
Message-ID:  <19990525124511140.AAA351@bc006429.tcs.timeinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990525075210.0465a180@granite.sentex.ca>
References:  <000001bea672$dce52580$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to>

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> At 01:53 AM 5/25/99 , David Schwartz wrote:
> >
> >	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.
> 
> NT out of the box needs to be patched for performance and security reasons.
> No matter what OS you deploy, you must follow the development so to
> speak... Even if only for security reasons.  Yes, it would be nice in a
> perfect world if this were not the case.
> 
> 	---Mike
> **********************************************************************
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> Sentex Communications Corp,       *  http://www.sentex.net/mike
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> 
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In my "real job" I am a MVS (now OS/390) systems programmer 
responsible for maintaing an operating system and other related 
program products.

The software that ships out of the box (i.e. release) is obsolete 
upon arrival. That is just a fact of life in a huge operating system.
Depending on how often I apply service, I could have many hundred 
to many thousand software changes to apply.

Users don't care about operating system changes, in fact they fight 
them (why do we have to test?), but we as system administrators 
are responsible for maintaining the best operating system we can, 
and that requires work on our part.



Mark Jacobs
MVS/JES2 Systems Programmer
Time Customer Service - Tampa, FL
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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-"
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