From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 14: 2: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E779F37BAAA for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12caRz-000OkK-00; Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:01:27 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: <<<<>>>>> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:21:52 +0530." <20000405022152.B28619@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:01:27 +0200 Message-ID: <95127.954882087@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:21:52 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > And the following is from the official announcement of 3.0: > > This release is primarily aimed at developers and early-adopters, > though many ISPs have reported good results when using it in > production (not that we recommend this to any but the most highly > skilled). See the release notes for more information. > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.0R/announce.html) You'll note, though, that this was text was not included in the release notes for FreeBSD 4.0. While the quote from Jordan certainly sounds right, I'd make two observations: 1) As the release date was pushed further and further back, confidence in the release grew. 2) The people I look up to within the project are very complimentary regarding the performance and stability of 4.0. Things that would deter folks from installation in the production environment are things like installation nits, a new IDE/ATAPI driver that doesn't support some really old crusty hardware and has been reported to not detect some modern hardware (NOTE: not a stability issue), a new sound driver that ... (doesn't matter what the problem is, since sound is mission critical for only a very small number of users). Anyway, you've certainly proven that it's unreasonable to be jumping down your throat about your comments. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message