From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 14:53: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C2AA14E3A for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:51:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA04903; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:51:20 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990302154522.03fb3730@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 15:51:13 -0700 To: Brett Taylor From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Cc: Bill Fumerola , Adam Turoff , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990302132445.040f6d40@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:00 PM 3/2/99 -0700, Brett Taylor wrote: >There's a reason we now have 3.1-STABLE. The 2.2.* branch is dead and >eventually (probably fairly quickly) ports will stop compiling correctly >for the 2.2 branch even if they have the ports updates correctly >installed. Sorry, but recent releases that are used in existing mission critical systems are NOT "dead limbs" to be sawn off within only a couple of months of release. I can see the Linuxoids ranting now: "See? The FreeBSD team doesn't even provide ports for a release that's less than 6 months old! So much for their 'great ports collection.' That's the kind of support you'll get if you use FreeBSD." Sad to say, they'll have a point. Conservative users who lag behind a version or two to ensure stability are the LAST people the FreeBSD team should want to disenfranchise. ("The power to serve," remember?) The ports had BETTER keep working for AT LEAST a year after release. To do anything less is to hurt users and damage FreeBSD's reputation beyond repair. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message