Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:34:42 -0400 From: ALHACK@am.pnu.com To: terry@lambert.org, James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, gpalmer@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: FreeBSD vs. Caldera Linux Message-ID: <1ea74950@am.pnu.com>
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Thank you everyone for the answers and including me in the discussion. Art ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Caldera Linux Author: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> at INTERNET Date: 07/09/96 02:29 PM > > Lots. Maybe 'touched' was a poor word. Many files were 'fixed' in the > > 2.1 -> 2.1.5 upgrade, but very few new features were added, and a couple > > of them shouldn't have been (/dev/random stuff). The ELF stuff is *new* > > code, and as such doesn't fit the bill for the 'target' of the stable > > release. > > OK, I can accept this. It means that there is really little value > in 2.1.5R vs. 2.1R (from my personal point of view, anyway), but it > is a solid, rational position. There probably isn't much of interest to kernel hackers in 2.1.5 - it's aimed mainly at users who want to have existing bugs fixed without new ones being introduced at the same time :-) > > > I don't think a "weight of printout" argument is really applicable in > > > this case. > > > > It certainly is. The 'weight of printout' implies that the code is both > > new *and* fairly untested on a large scale. > > No, it implies that the "number of files touched" is an arbiter of > whether or not a change is a good one or not. The question is one of stability, not of value judgments. I don't believe anyone is arguing that large changes are automatically bad, just that it takes longer for them to settle down sufficiently to be made available in a release. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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