Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:46:29 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?= <haering@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel of -current in 3.1? Message-ID: <19990904194629.07110@hydrogen.fircrest.net> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C37D1D7C0=2EC525B6B=40in=2Etum=2Ede=3E=3B_from_Gerhard_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring_on_Sun=2C_Sep_05=2C_1999_at_04=3A38=3A56AM_%2B0200?= References: <37D1D7C0.C525B6B@in.tum.de>
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Gerhard Häring scribbled this message on Sep 5: > I have some linux experience and I have recently installed freebsd. I > understand -current is not for serious work. I wonder if it is i) > possible ii) a good idea to install the *kernel* of -current in my > freebsd 3.1 system. Or are there too many user programs that heavily > depend on the kernel version? there are to many user programs that depend upon the kernel version... this is NOT linux as you have stated, and w/ FreeBSD the entire operating system comes as one package... unlike Linux where the userland is completely seperate from the kernel developement... anyways, it's the -current kernel that is really the part that isn't designed for production use, not the userland... you could probably build a -current userland w/ a -stable kernel, but that's another ball of wax... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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