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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:00:21 -0800
From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
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Subject: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> There will be three FreeBSD 6 releases in 2006.

While this is nice, may I suggest that it is time to put aside/delay one
release cycle and come up with a binary update mechanism supported well by
the OS?  Increasing the speed of releases is good.  Increasing the number
of deployed systems out of date because there are no easy binary upgrade
mechanisms is bad.

It has been bad, it's getting worse.

-- 
Jo Rhett
senior geek
SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation