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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:17:43 +0100
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        "Morten Seeberg" <morten@seeberg.dk>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@pooh.elsevier.nl>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: is -STABLE really stable?
Message-ID:  <v04220805b47337332a47@[195.238.21.204]>
In-Reply-To: <036901bf40b4$5573b300$1600a8c0@SOS>
References:  <XFMail.991207125633.steve@pooh.elsevier.nl> <036901bf40b4$5573b300$1600a8c0@SOS>

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At 2:09 PM +0100 1999/12/7, Morten Seeberg wrote:

>=20 Revising the release times for 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 I know realise that I=
=B4ve
>=20 just misunderstood the way -STABLE works :) And that I should just star=
t
>=20 using RELEASE on my production machines, instead of -STABLE, which I th=
ought
>=20 was "better"/"more stable" than RELEASE.

	Considering some of the comments I recall seeing from Jordan, I'd=20
actually be inclined to use -STABLE a couple weeks newer than the=20
latest -RELEASE.  The reason is that there is a strong tendency=20
amongst many people to wait until there's a -RELEASE version before=20
they consider it "safe" to download and try out, and they inevitably=20
find a few bugs which then need to be fixed.

	However, once you've got a box installed, I'd suggest not=20
updating it unless you see a bug fix or a security issue that=20
directly addresses something that you're actually seeing as an issue=20
on that machine.

--=20
=20  These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
=20 ____________________________________________________________________
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=20 Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.
=20  Unix is very user-friendly.  It's just picky who its friends are.


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