From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 10:18:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mark.kingsu.ab.ca (mark.kingsu.ab.ca [199.185.113.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E42E14FBF for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 10:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bwood@KingsU.ab.ca) Received: from KingsU.ab.ca (kingsnet.kingsu.ab.ca [199.185.113.33]) by mark.kingsu.ab.ca (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA77623 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 11:18:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from bwood@KingsU.ab.ca) Message-Id: <199905251718.LAA77623@mark.kingsu.ab.ca> Received: from KINGSNET/SpoolDir by KingsU.ab.ca (Mercury 1.44); 25 May 99 11:18:53 -0700 Received: from SpoolDir by KINGSNET (Mercury 1.44); 25 May 99 11:18:42 -0700 From: "Broderick Wood" Organization: The King's University College To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:18:36 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? In-reply-to: <199905251530.RAA15405@yedi.iaf.nl> References: from Seth at "May 25, 1999 9:23:12 am" X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.10) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My one comment on this is as folows... If you think the -RELEASE line is stable, why do they have a - STABLE version? In my mind simple logic dictates that -RELEASE means latest version, kind of like Win2000. Whereas -STABLE is a MORE STAVLE version with at least MOST of the knoen issues taken care of. At least with FreeBSD you have this option. With M$ it's ALL - RELEASE versions. I am only now using Win95 (last 2 years) in a production environment so that at least I know what the errors are gonna be... My 2 cents worth... > > Why not upgrade to -STABLE and solve the problem? I also had panics > > under 3.1-RELEASE, but they were all fixed within one week of -STABLE > > upgrades. > > I agree this may fix it. But it does not address the original point of > Sergey: why should I need to go for V.next if I just got my V.today with > -RELEASE stamped on it? --------------------------- -BMW- Don't just stand there! Pray something! (bwood@kingsu.ab.ca) Broderick Wood, Director of Information Technology Services The King's University College 9125 - 50 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6B 2H3 (780) 465-8315 (780) 465-3534 (FAX) ><> <>< To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message