From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 7 14:19: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dozer.skynet.be (dozer.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D68B154B1 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by dozer.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id XAA23667; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:18:25 +0100 (MET) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id XAA00957; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:18:10 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <036901bf40b4$5573b300$1600a8c0@SOS> References: <036901bf40b4$5573b300$1600a8c0@SOS> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:17:43 +0100 To: "Morten Seeberg" , "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: is -STABLE really stable? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ =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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message