Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:53:59 -0700 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD v3.5!!!!!!!!! Message-ID: <0b9c01bfdb3c$b6fe40e0$0200000a@danco>
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>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
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