Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 19:58:50 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> Cc: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Don Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? - gone into overdrive Message-ID: <36BD71EA.B5F13E4B@newsguy.com> References: <XFMail.990206144543.nicole@nmhtech.com>
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Nicole Harrington wrote: > > <Clogged head cold medication induced rant on> Oh, these are the second best rants! (the first best rants being the caffeine induced ones, and the hour concur rants being the heavy drugs ones) > There is one thing I would like to see FreeBSD incorperate is the solaris > style patches. Linux has been known as the kernel de'jour as FreeBSD as stable I'd love AIX style patches. For that matter, Solaris is more likely to require a reboot after a patch than AIX. Much more likely. And, overall, everything in the AIX patches is a little bit more agreeable, making the whole a lot more agreeable. That's my experience, anyway. BUT, because we *do* have "make world", and lot's of variant kernel configurations, so that people can choose many different flags for compilation, and even change compiler if they are brave, binary patches are downright impossible. For -release's, we could do it (had we the basic infrastructure), at the price of people (wanting to apply the patches) giving up on -stable. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Well, as a computer geek, I have to believe in the binary universe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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