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Date:      Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:38:40 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Chat" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?
Message-ID:  <056001c28e60$2af21cf0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DD7CF81.7030407@cream.org>

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Andrew writes:

> I think the point is that if everyone took
> that opinion then -stable would never get
> stress-tested in the sort of environment
> that Marc is using it, and we would never
> find some problems until a -release was
> rolled making the -release far less stable
> than we are used to.

That's right.  Thank goodness there are still people around who are willing
to take unnecessary risks.  As long as they aren't working in my
organization.

Of course, the ideal would be for the developers to stress-test the OS,
since they wrote it.  Apparently that doesn't happen for FreeBSD.  One of
the unfortunate consequences of open source, I suspect.

> Unfortunately these situations need someone
> with a high level of knowledge to sit down
> and work with Marc's crash dumps to figure out
> what the problem is. And those people are few
> and far between.....

Which is why organizations with mission-critical applications tend to run
proprietary software.


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