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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > > 	b) people like me, who have only one machine, usually 
> > > 	   run the bleeding edge, 
> > 
> >   I don't believe this is true.  I believe true number of bleeding edge
> > users is small.  Unless your are a developer, there is little benefit.
> > Other than SMP, what is in current that would tempt people to use it?
> 
> 95% of the FreeBSD developers doing bug fixes.  What percentage
> of these developers are soing the same for 2.x?

  2.2 is frozen, so bugfixes are infrequent because new bugs are not being
created.

  Any bugs found in current that apply 2.2, are applied there as well.


Tom