Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:44:11 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.5-stable ? Message-ID: <5595.939771851@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 02:47:04 %2B0900." <38037418.BC112172@newsguy.com>
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> Frankly, a year and a half is way too much wait for a system to > become stable. Hopefully, the shorter development cycle of 4.0 will > result in a 4.x line getting stabilized much faster. I agree. I also suspect that 4.0 will branch in a much more timely fashion than 3.0 did. We learned some hard lessons with 3.0's schedule. - Jordan > > All of the above is IMHO, though. > > All that said, 3.x-stable is quite reliable. Most problem reports I > have seen turned out to be operator errors, with a few known trouble > spots (nfs, out of mbufs panic). The releases have been cursed with > annoying problems getting past unnoticed, but they have been related > to installation, not reliability, and a simple wait of a couple of > weeks and use of Errata mitigates it. > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a > conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of > allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself > a little more?" > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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