Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:26:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) 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 ? Message-ID: <199905261826.UAA01115@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <374C0839.AD2EE3FC@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "May 26, 1999 11:42: 1 pm"
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As Daniel C. Sobral wrote ... > 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? Yes. Make world on -STABLE generally works. Service packs don't ;-) I'm known to break NT servers when I touch them, so no need to convince me.. Wilko | / 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
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