Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:22:13 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: brett@lariat.org Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? Message-ID: <200401061922.i06JMD7E014616@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040105134236.03b51cc0@localhost>
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On 5 Jan, Brett Glass wrote: > It's probably one of the Slashdot "BSD is dead" trolls. The fact is, though, > that there ARE things about FreeBSD that could stand improvement. These > days, when I build a box, I am torn between using FreeBSD 5.x -- which is > not ready for prime time but is at least being worked on actively -- and > using 4.9, which isn't as stable as it should be because the developers > broke the cardinal rule of making radical changes to -STABLE. This *is* > a real issue for those of us who are admins. The worst breakage of 4-STABLE in recent memory was the PAE commit, which I got the impression was driven by end-user demand. Probably folks who had expensive systems with > 4GB of RAM who wanted to be able to run 4-STABLE production systems and make use of all that RAM right now and not wait for 5.x to become production-worthy.
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