From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 13:03:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA29662 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns3-18.netcom.ca [207.181.94.146]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA29652 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA13746; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:01:59 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:01:59 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: dennis cc: Terry Lambert , Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970418150347.00b0b604@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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