Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:17:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... Message-ID: <199911231817.KAA01017@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:18:57 EST." <199911231818.NAA22236@misha.cisco.com>
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> Jordan K. Hubbard once wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > We keep our -stable branches going for more than a year each time. In > > this industry, that's a geological age. I think the people you're > > talking to must have lost their sense of proportion. > > The inability to boot after a seemingly successfull install should be > eliminated... The only way to guarantee this is to cause the install to fail unless the installation program can be 100% certain of the bootability of the install. Given that a number of crucial factors in this equation are unknown to the installer, this would result in a lot of otherwise successful installs being aborted due to uncertainty. I don't consider that particularly desirable. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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