From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 4 12:33:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3E137C172 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 12:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05809; Thu, 4 May 2000 13:33:41 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000504133011.04139910@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 13:33:31 -0600 To: Doug Barton From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Naw, Netscape doesn't have a memory problem! Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3911182C.68E325D@gorean.org> References: <4.3.1.2.20000503120120.0410c100@localhost> <4.3.1.2.20000503201615.048acd80@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:26 AM 5/4/2000, Doug Barton wrote: >Brett Glass wrote: > > > I understand that Yahoo stays several versions behind the > > curve on FreeBSD, too. > > That's pure FUD, and since you don't _really_ know the facts, you >shouldn't be repeating it. For example, I have publicly discussed on >several freebsd mailing list that in my little corner of Yahoo! we have >been using 4.0-Current since last august for some machines that needed >the (at the time) ongoing NFS fixes. I also have some 3.4-Stable >machines. In what corner of Yahoo do you work? I seem to recall a talk at which it was explicitly stated that Yahoo -- like most companies that rely on FreeBSD for mission- critical machines -- waited until each version had been shaken out before moving to it on production machines. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message