From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 17:25:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glow.binity.net (glow.binity.net [213.84.201.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D39737B404 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vscan (glow.dt1.binity.net [172.23.18.1]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7E255D5; Wed, 1 May 2002 02:25:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from silver.dt1.binity.net (silver.dt1.binity.net [172.23.3.20]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E182A54C9; Wed, 1 May 2002 02:25:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 02:25:46 +0200 From: Walter Hop X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Educational X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <4118357606.20020501022546@binity.com> To: Blake Swensen Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: 4.5-RELEASE oddities (read:flamebait) In-Reply-To: <3CCF0A42.F52C96E2@pyramus.com> References: <3CCF0A42.F52C96E2@pyramus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by glow.binity.net (amavis-perl-11-sky2) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to blake@pyramus.com, 30-04-2002] > I have never moaned about FreeBSD before... I have never been happier > with an operating system. However... I am just wondering if it is just > me, or have things gotten just a little sloppy? I have wondered the same thing after reading all the security advisories concerning the 4.5-RELEASE networking code, an area of the BSDs that is otherwise well-known for its great track record... I used to depend on -RELEASEs for production machines and only tracked -STABLE when it was necessary, but right now I'm happy that my upgrade plan for this month already was to bring all machines to -STABLE. Maybe the FreeBSD developer community has been under pressure a bit too much as a result of the big changes in the last year, who knows... I'll stick around for 5.0 anyway. Hopefully my C will be on par to help out a bit. :) -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24452020 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message