Date: 23 Nov 1999 19:52:11 +0200 From: Vadim Belman <voland@plab.ku.dk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... Message-ID: <85pux1umcz.fsf@lflat.dp.ua> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:17:59 -0800" References: <1797.943377479@localhost>
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Hi Jordan!
On 23 Nov 99 at 19:17, "Jordan" (Jordan K Hubbard) wrote:
>> Hm, I know few people who think twice before choosing FreeBSD for their
>> needs. They think versions change too fast. For some this is a sign of
>> bad stability (heh...) others just scared of necessity of following the
>> releases.
Jordan> We keep our -stable branches going for more than a year each time.
Jordan> In this industry, that's a geological age. I think the people
Jordan> you're talking to must have lost their sense of proportion.
I can agree. Even more: I do agree. But we must consider the fact
that the first release in 3.x, which is recommended for production
puropses, was 3.2 (don't mean official recommendations here 8). And
that was also the time when really massive switching from 2.x to
3.x was taking place. I would count this as the start point and
give about a year for the branch.
And I agree with 'proprtions' issue too. I'm trying to correct
this. But, perhaps, a considerable compromise would pay some
benefit to FreeBSD?
--
/Voland Vadim Belman
E-mail: voland@plab.ku.dk
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