Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:15:37 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Naw, Netscape doesn't have a memory problem! Message-ID: <3911E879.3C5406CE@asme.org> References: <4.3.1.2.20000503120120.0410c100@localhost> <4.3.1.2.20000503201615.048acd80@localhost> <4.3.1.2.20000504133011.04139910@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote:
>
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>
> In what corner of Yahoo do you work? I seem to recall a talk at which it
> was explicitly stated that Yahoo -- like most companies that rely on
> FreeBSD for mission- critical machines -- waited until each version had
> been shaken out before moving to it on production machines.
>
That they did it before doesn't mean it's a general policy. They did
keep the 2.2.x branch on many boxes but it seems like the like more 4.x
now.
The 3.x branch suffered the change to ELF format, the fact that we lost
John Dyson, and it was also the first release of SMP and Alpha support.
The stability and performance enhancements that came afterwards (thanks
in part by Matt Dillon) have made 4.0 much more interesting.
It's curious..I was one of the, probably many, subscribed that wrote
email to WC saying that I would prefer to receive 4.0 instead of 3.5. On
the newsgroups you will find some people complained when this decision
was taken.
I think this effect may repeat with 5.0 as well, since the BSDI codebase
is already very well tested in the commercial world.
cheers,
Pedro.
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