From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 26 8:23:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEAC14E7D for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 08:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id AAA08937; Thu, 27 May 1999 00:22:28 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <374C0839.AD2EE3FC@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:42:01 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: davids@webmaster.com, mike@smith.net.au, serge69@nym.alias.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? References: <199905252146.XAA05453@yedi.iaf.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 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. We also do that, through cvsup. Of course, the process of installing said fixes involves a make world, which could as well be a black box. Can you tell the difference between that and applying a service pack? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message