From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 4 14:39:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B79637B60E for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 14:39:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([200.41.111.86]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA3B42; Thu, 4 May 2000 16:25:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3911E879.3C5406CE@asme.org> Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:15:37 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Naw, Netscape doesn't have a memory problem! References: <4.3.1.2.20000503120120.0410c100@localhost> <4.3.1.2.20000503201615.048acd80@localhost> <4.3.1.2.20000504133011.04139910@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > ... > > 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. > That they did it before doesn't mean it's a general policy. They did keep the 2.2.x branch on many boxes but it seems like the like more 4.x now. The 3.x branch suffered the change to ELF format, the fact that we lost John Dyson, and it was also the first release of SMP and Alpha support. The stability and performance enhancements that came afterwards (thanks in part by Matt Dillon) have made 4.0 much more interesting. It's curious..I was one of the, probably many, subscribed that wrote email to WC saying that I would prefer to receive 4.0 instead of 3.5. On the newsgroups you will find some people complained when this decision was taken. I think this effect may repeat with 5.0 as well, since the BSDI codebase is already very well tested in the commercial world. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message