Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:01:59 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970418170059.4592g-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970418150347.00b0b604@etinc.com>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, dennis wrote:
> At 09:57 AM 4/18/97 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >> Uhh, yeah. You want stability, then you can't have 'brand-new'
> >> features. You can't have it both ways.
> >>
> >> To put it into a scenario you might understand.
> >>
> >> : I want to beta-test your newest product before it's released
> >> : publically, but it better be *rock* solid since I need your latest
> >> : driver to handle the huge network loads I'm using. And, I'll complain
> >> : if it makes my machine unstable.
> >
> >That looks like what he actually wants, as opposed to what he says
> >he thinks he wants.
> >
> >Why can't the latest driver work in a rock solid system, or why
> >can't a rock solid driver work in the latest system? A beta user
> >accepts some risk, but they shouldn't have to risk everything.
> >
>
> No..its more like..why can't the new features be smoothly integrated into the
> existing release product without having to create an entirely new animal.
Just speculating, but because they make use of other features that
only exist in newer release/development trees?
That's it, let's backport all the stable stuff to 2.0 so that those
still running that can use it... NAWT
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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