Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:29:47 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, Alexey Yakimovich <aiy@ferens.net> Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD Message-ID: <200507212029.47615.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050721095732.GG52120@stack.nl> References: <1121917413.4895.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050721095732.GG52120@stack.nl>
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--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--
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