From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 21:54: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2703637B935 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA12810; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <0b9c01bfdb3c$b6fe40e0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Josh Paetzel" , Subject: Re: FreeBSD v3.5!!!!!!!!! Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:53:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I like 4.0 just fine for my home network....but if I am going to get a call >at 2am because some mission critical piece of hardware is down, I'll use 3.4 >everytime. 3.x has years of in the field testing under its belt. Er, about 1 year 5 months, actually. Not *years*... >4.0 doesn't. No, but it has a lot of the old, stable, tried and true code in it, though... >And no matter how wonderful the coders are, and they are >wonderful, don't get me wrong, there are fun treats (read that as bugs) >waiting to be discovered in 4.0. And this presumes that bugs won't (or don't) find their way into 3.x-STABLE? I've cvsupped lots of updates to the source code for 3.x, so apparently it's not optimal yet... >Personally, I'd just as soon let someone >else find them. Well, the only *bug* I've seen in 4.0-STABLE is that the new ad driver no longer supports my old Pentium 90's broken IDE controller, which forced me spend $29 on a Promise Ultra33 card. And I haven't had any problems whatsoever with the three other computer I have 4.0 running on (a rather diverse group, too: Dell Dimension XPS P166c, Compaq Deskpro P75, IBM PC300PL PIII-350)... Of course, this isn't to say that lagging behind isn't a sound strategy, especially for a mission-critical machine, but I think it's definitely fair to say that 4.0 really is ready for prime time... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message