Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 04:49:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> To: tribble@tribble.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beware of WindRiver Systems! Message-ID: <200108031149.EAA08585@eskimo.com>
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I don't know if this thread is really relevant to this list, but assuming it is, my $.02. Mine came way late only after multiple emails with windriver. Once alerted they responded quickly. I wasn't sure how soon after a RELEASE was announced to start nagging them (anyone want to answer that?). While I waited, all sorts of trouble began happening related to version shear (ports stopped building because fetch was looking for older versions of sources, could not ftp some packages from stable mirrors, etc). Biggest of these problems was the 4.2 kernel wasn't able to deal with the new computer I had bought and for a while, I was running a 4.3 kernel on an otherwise 4.2-RELEASE system (at 56k a kernel is all I'm prepared to download). -r >Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:53:02 -0600 >From: Paul <tribble@tribble.net> >Subject: Re: Beware of WindRiver Systems! > >ditto. My 4.3-RELEASE cd's came late. I don't really care, though. I >rarely use the pressed CDs. I have a subscription because I'm a long-time >FreeBSD user/administrator, and I wish to contribute something to the >FreeBSD project. Since I don't code, I pay for a subscription, and try to >turn as many new people onto FreeBSD as possible, and help newcomers learn >the basics. Regardless, though, my 4.3 CD did come, albeit a bit late. > >Once upon a time, Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> scribed: >> Hi Gerd, >> >> Maybe I'm just lucky, but I haven't had any problem. My 4.3 CDs >> arrived without any "intervention" on my part. Maybe a bit more >> slowly than I might have liked, but I don't need them at the moment >> so I don't really care. >> >> But then, they do say that Australia is "the lucky country" ;-) >> >> Tony >> -- >> Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> >> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 >> Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 >> Level 4, Rialto North Tower >> 525 Collins Street >> Melbourne VIC 3000 >> Australia > >Regards, >Paul ><tribble@tribble.net> >http://www.tribble.net/ > >"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." > -- Adlai Stevenson > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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