Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 10:59:37 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Chat" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org>
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The most appropriate version of any operating system to run on your server is the oldest one that meets your requirements. Otherwise you will spend your life doing someone else's debugging. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 04:28 Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > > > From: "Lefteris Tsintjelis" <lefty@ene.asda.gr> > > To: "Peter Hoskin" <peterh@ripewithdecay.com> > > Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>; "Hununu" > > <hununu@netcabo.pt>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 7:19 PM > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? > > > > > > > It sure is misleading. Why is it called -stable then? You would > > expect > > > to stand up to its name. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Lefteris Tsintjelis > > > > > > > It depends on your point of view. -CURRENT is noted as occasionally > > being broken to the point that it won't even build. The RELENG_4 > > branch (almost) always will. From a -CURRENT point of view, > > RELENG_4 is "stable." > > > > However, to someone looking from the other direction, I can see > > where it might be 'misleading.' Perhaps it should have been called > > "FUTURE" and "CURRENT", instead. But I'm not sure that any > > of the core team or committers would consider themselves 'prophets.' > > ;-) > > Occasional problems with -STABLE I've always expected ... I don't run a > typical server ... hell, I had a problem for awhile there where I was > hitting the edge of the KVM, causing it to crash ... but, I swear, > STABLE's stability has been going down, not improving ... to the point > where I had one machine running a Sept10th kernel that would run for a few > weeks in a stretch, but a newer kernel I'd be lucky to keep alive for > 24-48hrs ... > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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