From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 17 16: 3: 3 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 09E0137B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:03:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.netcologne.de (smtp.netcologne.de [194.8.194.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA6243E42 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:03:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmseck-usenet@netcologne.de) Received: from mail.tmseck.homedns.org (xdsl-213-168-109-111.netcologne.de [213.168.109.111]) by smtp.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806EE8665E for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:02:56 +0100 (MET) Received: by mail.tmseck.homedns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BEF6B286A5; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:02:55 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Seck To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?) Organization: private site In-Reply-To: <20021117192123.L23359-100000@hub.org> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Attribution: tms Mail-Copies-To: nobody Message-Id: <20021118000255.BEF6B286A5@mail.tmseck.homedns.org> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:02:55 +0100 (CET) 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 * Marc G. Fournier (scrappy@hub.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 Basically, you want others to do the developing, testing and patching and keep the complaining part for yourself. --Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message