From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 17 15:27:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9457137B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4073F43E4A for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:27:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA71907 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:27:04 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11042; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:27:04 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200211172327.KAA11042@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 05/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Gregory Bond To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?) In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 17 Nov 2002 23:52:08 +0100. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:27:04 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You have chosen to maintain systems which stretch FreeBSD to its limits > and uncover bugs lurking in the code. This is great. But you cannot do > so on the one hand and refuse to face the administrative work on the > other hand. And this is not a FreeBSD problem either - if you are doing stressful or mission-critical things, then you have to put more effort into admin and making sure you get the right OS environment, whether you are running FreeBSD or Solaris or whatever. For example, if you had Solaris boxes in the same job, you wouldn't just willy-nilly add Solaris patches without trying them on a test box.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message