From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 09:46:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA19170 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 09:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dreamlabs.dreaming.org (skypirates.constantchange.on.ca [198.96.119.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA19163 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 09:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from shyone@localhost) by dreamlabs.dreaming.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA05399; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 12:45:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 12:45:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Engineer, 08.ZIYA" X-Sender: shyone@dreamlabs.dreaming.org To: Michael Smith cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDI binaries In-Reply-To: <199604070044.KAA05283@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > If you get a 'good' -current, it'll usually be fine, it's just that quite > often you get one that's not so good, and then you end up with a machine that > hangs or eats your filesystems (rare) or whatever. -current is good if > you're working on FreeBSD, but if you're working on other things and > want a stable platform to do your work on, -stable is a better bet. > I run -current in order to learn things. I like it when it breaks... i try and track it down, or follow the lists to watch the progress and how it is solved. For stability, i have my boring -stable machine over there in the corner. :) Waiting patiently for 2.2, Mit %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % ShyOne | Mitayai % % Engineer | Project Co-ordinator % % 08.ZIYA | DreamLabs % % shyone@constantchange.on.ca | mitayai@dreaming.org % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%