Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:18:50 +0400 (MSD) From: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" <asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905251712470.52308-100000@crydee.sai.msu.ru> In-Reply-To: <3200.927612670@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard 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. [...] > If you're just downloading something off the net which represents an > ongoing moving target and you're working with volunteers who REQUIRE > precise and accurate bug reports in order to do anything at all useful > for you, however, then certain minimum standards in the user himself > must be met. Some users who "just want to use it" and not be bothered > to adapt to the unique non-commercial environment they're now in are > expecting far too much from too little personal investment, basically. Nevertheless many people here I have talked to seem to have an opinion on FreeBSD as something which is stable as a rock and changes very rarely. In other words, not a moving target but a solid foundation for server of any kind. It may sound funny that most of these people never used FreeBSD though (they all run/ran Linux). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sergey Ayukov Sternberg Astronomical Institute http://www.ayukov.com Moscow, Russia http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/index-asv.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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