From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 7:16:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from crydee.sai.msu.ru (crydee.sai.msu.ru [195.208.220.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8ACE14C24 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 07:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Received: from localhost (asv1@localhost) by crydee.sai.msu.ru (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA52384 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 17:18:50 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:18:50 +0400 (MSD) From: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? In-Reply-To: <3200.927612670@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard 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. [...] > If you're just downloading something off the net which represents an > ongoing moving target and you're working with volunteers who REQUIRE > precise and accurate bug reports in order to do anything at all useful > for you, however, then certain minimum standards in the user himself > must be met. Some users who "just want to use it" and not be bothered > to adapt to the unique non-commercial environment they're now in are > expecting far too much from too little personal investment, basically. Nevertheless many people here I have talked to seem to have an opinion on FreeBSD as something which is stable as a rock and changes very rarely. In other words, not a moving target but a solid foundation for server of any kind. It may sound funny that most of these people never used FreeBSD though (they all run/ran Linux). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sergey Ayukov Sternberg Astronomical Institute http://www.ayukov.com Moscow, Russia http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/index-asv.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message