Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:53:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Don't bet on 3.0 release Message-ID: <199810181753.NAA08216@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981018114951.00723bc8@etinc.com> from Dennis at "Oct 18, 98 11:49:54 am"
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Dennis recently said: > At 10:37 AM 10/18/98 -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: > >Greg Lehey recently said: > >Well there was plenty of notice/warning about 3.0 being the first > >cut and was to be for experimentors and early adopters. I got a > >notice on my subscription about 2 months ago - and they suggested > >that you wait until at least 3.1 for a production environment. > >Installing a new release on a production system within days of its' > >release always has the chance of being dicey. No matter how much > >you beta test something still seems to come out that was missed. > -RELEASE implies that its ready for the general public. If its > still in BETA, which your comments indicate it is, then it should > not be released. What's the point of doing a release if its not > ready? Well I have been doing beta testing on a Unix release (not FreeBSD) for a couple of months. Guess what - when it went into general production - and the final CDs were pressed - not the Kodak writable CDs we were getting as beta tester- a few more bugs popped up. You can test everything for all pieces of hardware - because someone will always find a combination that is not tested, or a keystroke combination that was not tested for, etc. About the only programming that normally seems to be bulletproof - at least in more cases than not - are the OSes and control programs in ROMs for embedded controls. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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