From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 12 16:44:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8353E15167 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA05598; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Michael Lucas , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.5-stable ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 02:47:04 +0900." <38037418.BC112172@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:44:11 -0700 Message-ID: <5595.939771851@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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