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Date:      Thu, 04 May 2000 13:33:31 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Naw, Netscape doesn't have a memory problem!
Message-ID:  <4.3.1.2.20000504133011.04139910@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3911182C.68E325D@gorean.org>
References:  <4.3.1.2.20000503120120.0410c100@localhost> <4.3.1.2.20000503201615.048acd80@localhost>

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At 12:26 AM 5/4/2000, Doug Barton wrote:
   
>Brett Glass wrote:
>
> > I understand that Yahoo stays several versions behind the
> > curve on FreeBSD, too.
>
>         That's pure FUD, and since you don't _really_ know the facts, you
>shouldn't be repeating it. For example, I have publicly discussed on
>several freebsd mailing list that in my little corner of Yahoo! we have
>been using 4.0-Current since last august for some machines that needed
>the (at the time) ongoing NFS fixes. I also have some 3.4-Stable
>machines. 

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.

--Brett Glass



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