From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 15:56:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3DB15B72 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 15:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id AAA06456; Wed, 26 May 1999 00:13:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA05453; Tue, 25 May 1999 23:46:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199905252146.XAA05453@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? In-Reply-To: <374AF82C.2ED50D57@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "May 26, 1999 4:21:16 am" To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:46:50 +0200 (CEST) Cc: davids@webmaster.com, mike@smith.net.au, serge69@nym.alias.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Daniel C. Sobral wrote ... > David Schwartz wrote: > first, and only *then*, if the bug persists, complain. What's the > point of complaining about something fixed already? And if it is not > fixed, how are we supposed to tell the difference between it, and > something that *has* been fixed, if you are not using the latest > stable? > > And don't come with the "company supported" stuff. Default procedure > for technical support of any software house is to first get the user > to apply fixes, and only then consider the possibility of new bug. There is one detail I miss: most commercial products are supported by supplying limited scale fixes (OK, sometime a *lot* of them) instead of a wholesale upgrade. Not that I advocate starting a patch circus like most of the commercial folks mind you! Just an observation. | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message