From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 4 23:05:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA07517 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 23:05:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from unicorn.ww.net (crimea-gw.ww.net [193.124.73.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA07496 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 23:04:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alexis@localhost) by unicorn.ww.net (8.6.12/alexis 2.5) id KAA00381 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:04:49 +0300 Message-Id: <199602050704.KAA00381@unicorn.ww.net> Subject: Making serious use of FreeBSD... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:04:48 +0300 (MSK) From: "Alexis Yushin" Reply-To: alexis@ww.net (Alexis Yushin) X-Office-Phone: +380 65 2 26.1410 X-Home-Phone: +380 65 2 27.0747 X-NIC-Handle: AY23 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greetins, We currently run one of the major ISP for the Crimean peninsula on FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE machines only and feel confident in this operating system. Still stability problems occurs sometimes and I would like to get freebsd-hackers input and suggestion on how to avoid them. The primary question is a FAQ, still not solved for sure: ``What FreeBSD version do I run and maintain to achieve maximal stability?'' Actually this is what -stable for, but it is not sufficient sometimes... As Jordan wrote one should have -current and -stable branches (ok, I already have them) to take the best parts from both of them. As far as I see -current is 2.2 already and -stable is 2.1. I expirienced much of the troubles with DigiBoard driver which handles all of my slip, ppp, uucp and terminal connections. (PLEASE don't tell me I need a hardware router, better buy me it on my birthday :-) There are a lot of problems in it, because of closed polici of Digi etc, along with incompatibility between -current and -stable. Do I switch my router to -current? Is -current expected to run more stable than -stable? Guess not, but I cannot see an easy way out... Another question is just estetical and almost of ``Is it ok?'' kind. We spoke of -stable and -current supporting, and what I have done: In the /src filesystem (1G) I made the following tree: /src/FreeBSD /src/FreeBSD/current /src/FreeBSD/stable /src/FreeBSD/sup The appropriate sup instances gets appropriate version into appropriate directories. :-) How do I have more than one version compiled simultaneously on one machine (one filesystem)? I could make current/obj and stable/obj directories but how do I tell each collection to compile into the appropriate places? And the last one is how do I determine where the most stable part is without experiencing myself on a hard-working system? alexis P.S. I reread this message I found it rather lamish... :-) Sorry, it must be too early in the morning... -- The more experienced you are the less people you can get advice from.