Date: Wed, 4 Sep 96 23:20:10 +0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <e8917523@linf.unb.br@gns.com.br> To: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: current-digest V1 #579 Message-ID: <9609042020.AA0057@DANIEL.sobral> In-Reply-To: <199609041435.HAA14142@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-current-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Sep 4 96 7:35 am
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> From: George Scott <George.Scott@cc.monash.edu.au> > Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 11:58:17 +1000 > Subject: Re: Latest Current build failure > > > Hell, the concept of "production level" doesn't even make sense when > > discussing what's essentially a live snapshot of the engineering > > team's working sources and, if anything, the real problem here is that > > the WRONG PEOPLE are running -current! > > I think that part of the problem might be that the name is a little bit > misleading. When I first started looking at FreeBSD and heard about CURRENT > I had an image in my mind of the current release, ie, what I later discovered > was called -RELEASE. I guess it's just psychological. If you are not "current" with FreeBSD, you're obviously outdated. Given the pressure society puts today on being, how should I put it?, "avant-guard", it's no wonder that people get frustrated being unable to be "current". -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@gns.com.br e8917523@linf.unb.br
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