Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 23:40:08 -0600 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Plea to core team Message-ID: <3647D1B8.C1A0CD4D@airnet.net> References: <199811091737.MAA31468@laker.net>
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Steve Friedrich wrote: > > I wonder if anyone subscribed to -questions besides me thinks that the > 3.0R shouldn't have been made generally available. It is allowing > total morons to destroy FreeBSD's reputation due to their incompetence. > 3.0R SHOULD be only installed by people with a freakin clue. Not > total newbies. It has resulted in a tremendous amount of noise on this > forum, because these newbies think they should be running the latest > and greatest. They aren't reading the release notes or anything else. > Please don't let them continue. Make 3.0R available only to those > willing to certify: The ones who are "causing a stink" are the ones too clueless to read the 3.0-RELEASE notes, which Jordan so gratutiously spammed to a list (or two?). > 1. They are NOT using it in a production environment > 2. They have extensive FreeBSD experience > 3. They have extensive Unix System Admin experience > 4. They realize 3.X is not yet supported I can't say I apply for numbers two and three, I just feel bad that everyone hates 3.0-RELEASE. I feel like I'm the only one who got it right although it took two days of non-continuous downloading (this is a nifty feature of the FreeBSD install, just leave it for a day waiting for user input). Something is to be said about sysinstall's unique interpretation of the download speed. I was getting ~200KB from sysinstall when I know damn well I'm using a 26400 modem connection, not multiple T1's. Now to get that CVS tree here... -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail <kirbyk@email.uah.edu> UAH CS <kkirby@cs.uah.edu> Home <kris@airnet.net> WWW <nomurphy@hotmail.com> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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