Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:17:43 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: "Morten Seeberg" <morten@seeberg.dk>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@pooh.elsevier.nl>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: is -STABLE really stable? Message-ID: <v04220805b47337332a47@[195.238.21.204]> In-Reply-To: <036901bf40b4$5573b300$1600a8c0@SOS> References: <XFMail.991207125633.steve@pooh.elsevier.nl> <036901bf40b4$5573b300$1600a8c0@SOS>
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At 2:09 PM +0100 1999/12/7, Morten Seeberg wrote: > Revising the release times for 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 I know realise that I´ve > just misunderstood the way -STABLE works :) And that I should just start > using RELEASE on my production machines, instead of -STABLE, which I thought > was "better"/"more stable" than RELEASE. Considering some of the comments I recall seeing from Jordan, I'd actually be inclined to use -STABLE a couple weeks newer than the latest -RELEASE. The reason is that there is a strong tendency amongst many people to wait until there's a -RELEASE version before they consider it "safe" to download and try out, and they inevitably find a few bugs which then need to be fixed. However, once you've got a box installed, I'd suggest not updating it unless you see a bug fix or a security issue that directly addresses something that you're actually seeing as an issue on that machine. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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