From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 11:00:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB1316A455 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:00:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A5AF43DA0 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:00:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp246-29.lns2.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.246.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6LAxwuC025874 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:30:04 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:29:47 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <1121917413.4895.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050721095732.GG52120@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050721095732.GG52120@stack.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1304133.QWTOQ7Xmtk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507212029.47615.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Marc Olzheim , Alexey Yakimovich Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:00:34 -0000 --nextPart1304133.QWTOQ7Xmtk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:27, Marc Olzheim wrote: > Thank you for expressing my exact same sentiments. I'm still a huge > FreeBSD fan and switching to anything else (well, perhaps DragonFly) > seems out of the question, but my faith is being tested a lot lately. > Having switched some of my companies production machines to 5.4, since > it was (in my eyes falsely) called a 'production release', FreeBSD's > reputation within the less technical parts of the company has taken a > large dent. Luckily they know as well that there's still no comparison > to FreeBSD 4.x; top of my ruptime looks like: I think the best way to rectify this is to test RC candidates on YOUR=20 hardware.. This finds the bugs you need fixed at a time when people are ver= y=20 receptive to fixing them. It's not realistic for the release engineer to test on a lot of hardware as= =20 they are very busy doing other things. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1304133.QWTOQ7Xmtk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC34Aj5ZPcIHs/zowRAk+PAJ4wT+J99CVTvxhgf04ZBVLy6LtcpACgkFtr ScsufxfF/vqudniTJ7Ws1BQ= =Saw9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1304133.QWTOQ7Xmtk--