Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 06:22:36 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current and -stable mailing lists Message-ID: <199703180422.GAA28685@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <l03010d00af53952588d5@[208.2.87.4]> from Richard Wackerbarth at "Mar 17, 97 06:51:01 pm"
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> > It bothers me that people are so quick to "write off" a system as soon as it > is kicked out the door. I think that such an attitude shows that there is > a lack of realization as to the performance level expected of a "real" > product. If the attitude continues to be this one whereby a system is > discarded just when it reaches the "almost complete" stage, FreeBSD will > continue to be viewed as a "hobbyist" system rather than the quality > product that many of us want it to be. > I think you want to spread us too thin, if you want us to work on three trees. Even big companies like Microsoft don't do it that way, or have you seen any Win 3.11 fixes lately.... or even the last year for that matter? I haven't even seen a "commercial" user comming forward and say that 2.1.x is important for them and they want to help keep it up to date. So maybe it isn't really important for them, or maybe they are also just going to upgrade to 2.2 soon? We are using it commercially and I'm allready busy convincing the powers that be that we have to upgrade because I don't think it is worth it to keep going on with 2.1.x. It is just getting too hard to retrofit things from 2.2 and -current. Just my R0.02. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
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