From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 23 9:30:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675A215377 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:30:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pooh.elsevier.nl) Received: (from steve@localhost) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA00838; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:30:12 GMT (envelope-from steve) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <85903pw3fn.fsf@lflat.dp.ua> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:30:12 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Vadim Belman Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Nov-1999 Vadim Belman wrote: > Hi Daniel! > > On 23 Nov 99 at 11:17, "Daniel" (Daniel C Sobral) wrote: > > Daniel> 3.x-stable doesn't have that much of a lifetime remaining. I think > Daniel> it would be better wait 4.x-stable. > > Hm, I know few people who think twice before choosing FreeBSD for > their needs. They think versions change too fast. For some this is What do they think changes slowly enough ? > a sign of bad stability (heh...) others just scared of necessity of > following the releases. I suggest pointing them at the example of yahoo (an uptime was posted here recently) as an indication that 'if you don't need the features you don't need to upgrade'. > While I myself appreciate transformation of 4.0 into -stable > because of some useful features and changes I'm looking for, from > general point of view wouldn't it be better and make lifetime of > 3.x longer? I rather expect that just as 2.x lasted well past the introduction of 3-stable so will 3.x outlast the start of 4-stable. ------------------------------------------------------- Tell a computer to WIN and ... ... You lose ------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message