From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri May 4 2:38:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cassini.dc.kau.se (cassini.dc.kau.se [193.10.220.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC7F37B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 02:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jorgen.sigvardsson@kau.se) Received: from munin.dc.kau.se (not verified[193.10.220.94]) by cassini.dc.kau.se with MailMarshal (4,0,7,0) id ; Fri, 04 May 2001 11:38:23 +200 Received: from js-pc (js-pc.cs.kau.se [193.10.222.81]) by munin.dc.kau.se (2.5 Build 2626 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA09839 for ; Fri, 04 May 2001 11:38:22 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rgen=20Sigvardsson?= Organization: University of Karlstad To: Subject: Re: Survey on tuning facts. Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:48:50 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" References: <003601c0d47a$24b7d560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <003601c0d47a$24b7d560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> X-Linux-User: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0105041248500T.15338@js-pc> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 May 2001 11:11, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >Why is it not on by default? > > Because it's new. > > >Maybe I'm not getting the point > > The point of BSD has always been rock-solid reliability. If you want > feature-o-the-day then you use Linux. Soft Updates is only a year or so > old, it's not got the mileage on it yet to be switched on by default. Ok, fair enough. Out of curiousity: what is the required mileage for features to be considered rock-solid? - -- Jörgen Sigvardsson, B. Sc. Lecturer, Computer Science Dept. Karlstad University Tel: +46-(0)54-700 1786 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE68okTJtcD8rikkmwRAjjrAJsED/wTDMI2n3cfdlktmDFB7GgMZwCfV0U8 YxZPStIPXZu7T12KsAbEvdU= =9i6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message