From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 4 20:12:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA16881 for current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 20:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1-bsb.GNS.com.br ([200.239.56.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA16871 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 20:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by srv1-bsb.GNS.com.br (8.7.5/8.7.5) id AAA12513; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 00:12:00 -0300 (EST) Received: from dl0113-bsb.gns.com.br(200.239.56.113) by srv1-bsb.GNS.com.br via smap (V1.3) id sma012265; Thu Sep 5 00:10:02 1996 Received: by DANIEL.sobral (IBM OS/2 SENDMAIL VERSION 1.3.14/2.12um) id AA0057; Wed, 04 Sep 96 23:20:11 +0300 Message-Id: <9609042020.AA0057@DANIEL.sobral> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 96 23:20:10 +0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" Subject: Re: current-digest V1 #579 To: current@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: e8917523@linf.unb.br In-Reply-To: <199609041435.HAA14142@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-current-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Sep 4 96 7:35 am X-Disclaimer: Klaatu Barada Nikto! X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] for OS/2 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: George Scott > 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 If you are not "current" with FreeBSD, you're obviously outdated.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