From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 17 15:30:51 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 184F137B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:30:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C881843E4A for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:30:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDED8A191E for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:30:45 -0400 (AST) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:30:45 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?) In-Reply-To: <20021117225208.E5539286A5@mail.tmseck.homedns.org> Message-ID: <20021117192123.L23359-100000@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Thomas Seck wrote: > 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. This does not work. You have the freedom to maintain your > own release with all the patches and fixes you need. Why don't you do > it? Instead you waste your time with complaining (and you waste my time > because I have to read it and think about the replies I am going to > send)? But, what you miss in here is that picking and choosing which patches to use is useless, as it doesn't take into consideration the interactions of other patches you don't apply ... or the reliance of future patches that would be useful on those patches you don't apply ... if I wanted to pick-n-choose patches, I'd run Linux ... I choose to run FreeBSD because its an Operating System, not a Kernel with a 101 different distributions ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message