From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 5:42: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop-serv1.customersvc.com (pop-serv1.customersvc.com [208.135.116.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0833D14EE6 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 05:41:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jacobsm@customersvc.com) Received: from bc006429.tcs.timeinc.com ([168.161.131.229]) by pop-serv1.customersvc.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-29023U510) with SMTP id AAA351 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 08:45:11 -0400 From: jacobsm@customersvc.com (Mark Jacobs) Organization: Time Customer Service To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:43:07 -0400 Subject: RE: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? In-reply-to: <4.1.19990525075210.0465a180@granite.sentex.ca> References: <000001bea672$dce52580$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <19990525124511140.AAA351@bc006429.tcs.timeinc.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 01:53 AM 5/25/99 , David Schwartz wrote: > > > > Have you stopped to consider that users may just want to _use_ FreeBSD > >without having to follow the development? Have you considered that bad > >releases affect them? This is yet another piece of the 'Open Source' versus > >'company supported' puzzle. > > NT out of the box needs to be patched for performance and security reasons. > No matter what OS you deploy, you must follow the development so to > speak... Even if only for security reasons. Yes, it would be nice in a > perfect world if this were not the case. > > ---Mike > ********************************************************************** > Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net > Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike > Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 > Canada * > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message In my "real job" I am a MVS (now OS/390) systems programmer responsible for maintaing an operating system and other related program products. The software that ships out of the box (i.e. release) is obsolete upon arrival. That is just a fact of life in a huge operating system. Depending on how often I apply service, I could have many hundred to many thousand software changes to apply. Users don't care about operating system changes, in fact they fight them (why do we have to test?), but we as system administrators are responsible for maintaining the best operating system we can, and that requires work on our part. Mark Jacobs MVS/JES2 Systems Programmer Time Customer Service - Tampa, FL ------------------------------------------------------ "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" - General John Sedgewick, Union Army Last Words, 1864 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message