From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 4 16: 2:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102AA43D6 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for chat@freebsd.org id 12GsgR-0009Kb-00; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 00:02:39 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA21231 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 00:02:38 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 00:02:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-chat Subject: Re: reading this list and staying stable Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I recently received this in response to my post. Some names have been changed to protect the innocent. Any thoughts? I know some have complained about more frequent releases (both from a stability standpoint and a financial one). Is anyone else concerned by this rapid development cycle? > Other than bugs and security fixes, what kinds of things are discussed > here on -stable? And would it make more sense to stick with -release > if i can't keep up? if it make any difference .. i've been following freebsd via the -release cdroms for over 4 years now. i started with ver 2.0.5-release and would upgrade every time a new -release made its been ok, untill recently when for some strange reason the american contingent has decided freebsd needs to be release every five minutes and the bug testing of the prelease versions has been shoddy to say the least. but i have also started to serioulsy concider moving over to openbsd, the quieter, more measured pace of life is more predictable and things happen in an orderly manner .. not as it seems to be on freebsd where the coffee'd up superexitable juveniles seem to be getting release, for the sake of number bumping, happy. my apologies if your world view differs, i remember what freebsd used to be like, i've seen the changes happen and can see where some of them are leading .. it is not all good. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message