From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 2 9: 7:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10A9401D for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:07:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12G3CM-000CoD-00; Wed, 02 Feb 2000 19:04:10 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:04:10 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Michael Bacarella Cc: Mike Nowlin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search Message-ID: <20000202190409.A49105@mithrandr.moria.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-02-02 (11:18), Michael Bacarella wrote: > > systems have the highest availability rate possible. Over the last few > > years, I have replaced almost all of our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD, > > due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team have > > implemented. > > Not to start a flame-fest or anything (but who doesn't love em?), I hear > the above quite a lot. (I don't like them.) > I certainly couldn't put up a reasonable arguement for either side in > Slackware Linux vs. FreeBSD. > > Could you? Nope. I can't say I know Slackware or its quality-control measures, so could you please answer some questions for me? What sort of quality-control measures does Slackware have? Where do I access their cvs tree? Where do I access their problem reports? Where do I subscribe to get every commit message? How long are their code freezes? How many committers do they have? What mechanism creates their releases? Where do I get release-candidates? (I apologize if that sounds argumentative, it really isn't. It just addresses some of the things that I do know about FreeBSD with regards to quality control, and what I don't know about Slackware in order to answer your question.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message