From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 26 15:35:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960A114C23 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 15:35:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:35:31 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105908@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Wilko Bulte' Cc: "'stable@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: RE: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:37:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm no rabid anti-ms protestor, but I have one thing to say. Never.. ever, so long as you live, ever, even if it's life and death, uninstall MS Internet Exploiter from NT. hahaha.. I don't think my IT department was to happy about the overly informative blue screen that came up each time my system tried to boot. If my FreeBSD machine ever panic's because I installed/uninstall lynx, or lynx makes itself the default shell for root, and I have to browse /dev like a web page, I may have to see what all the hub-bub is about linux! ;^) -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Wilko Bulte [SMTP:wilko@yedi.iaf.nl] > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 2:27 PM > To: dcs@newsguy.com > Cc: davids@webmaster.com; mike@smith.net.au; serge69@nym.alias.net; > freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? > > As Daniel C. Sobral wrote ... > > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > There is one detail I miss: most commercial products are supported by > > > supplying limited scale fixes (OK, sometime a *lot* of them) instead > of > > > a wholesale upgrade. > > > > > > Not that I advocate starting a patch circus like most of the > commercial folks > > > mind you! Just an observation. > > > > We also do that, through cvsup. Of course, the process of installing > > said fixes involves a make world, which could as well be a black > > box. Can you tell the difference between that and applying a service > > pack? > > Yes. Make world on -STABLE generally works. Service packs don't ;-) > > I'm known to break NT servers when I touch them, so no need to convince > me.. > > Wilko > | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD > - > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl > http://www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message