Date: 17 Nov 2002 20:11:16 +0100 From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <1037560276.1094.19.camel@skalman.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <056001c28e60$2af21cf0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DD7CF81.7030407@cream.org> <056001c28e60$2af21cf0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 18:38, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Andrew writes: > > > I think the point is that if everyone took > > that opinion then -stable would never get > > stress-tested in the sort of environment > > that Marc is using it, and we would never > > find some problems until a -release was > > rolled making the -release far less stable > > than we are used to. > > That's right. Thank goodness there are still people around who are willing > to take unnecessary risks. As long as they aren't working in my > organization. > > Of course, the ideal would be for the developers to stress-test the OS, > since they wrote it. Apparently that doesn't happen for FreeBSD. One of > the unfortunate consequences of open source, I suspect. You simply can't stresstest to the point that customers won't find problems anyway. That is why the closed source companies have betatesters and releases betas to the public.That is realy not an open vs closed source argument at all. That is also why one finds buggs even in releases. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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