From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 7 12:36:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04533 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04527 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA05846; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 15:30:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 15:30:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Darren Reed , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... In-Reply-To: <199704071549.IAA19311@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Darren Reed wrote: > > > > In some mail from Jonathan M. Bresler, sie said: > > > [SNIP] > > > no thanks. > > > > Might I add, that a constantly changing 2.2-STABLE is the equivalent of > > the "linux kernel club of the week". At times, FreeBSD-current is a "kernel > > of the week" club in many ways too, as is NetBSD-current. > > absolutely! no doubt about it. that is what the -current label > is supposed to imply--currently under developement. > wanna run -current on your box? cool, but BE CAREFUL ;) > > Might I add that although the -CURRENT tree is certainly "kernel of the week", which it is intended to be, the -STABLE branch (which is what you get when you sup RELENG_2_2) really isn't like that. It's *stable*, meaning that changes ar introduced to make the system *stabler*. Gee, wonder why they call it -STABLE? ;-) Changes don't happen too often to -STABLE when compared to -CURRENT, which is where the "kernel of the week" comparision to linux breaks. -STABLE is a great idea - quite possibly the #1 reason why I switched to FreeBSD from Linux a year and a half ago. -Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert