From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 4 19:47:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from metriclient-1.uoregon.edu (metriclient-1.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6F114D94 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by metriclient-1.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.8.7) id TAA11779; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990904194629.07110@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:46:29 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?= Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel of -current in 3.1? References: <37D1D7C0.C525B6B@in.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 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_+0200?= Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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