From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 19 22:59:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643AC14F04 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 22:59:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990320070016.NGFC3226200.mta2-rme@wocker>; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:00:16 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Brett Glass Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:58:25 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Use of FreeBSD-STABLE (was: Oddity in name resolution) Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <4.1.19990319230014.03f4e680@localhost> References: <19990320132412.N429@lemis.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990320070016.NGFC3226200.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Mar 99, at 23:07, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:24 PM 3/20/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > >We have > >never yet brought out a -RELEASE which hasn't caused problems for > >somebody, and we almost certainly never will. > > True. But those problems are known quantities due to the large number > of users of -RELEASE versions. One can never know whether a problem > will crop up with a particular day's -STABLE build because one > happened to pick the wrong day. It's therefore more likely that > you'll ask about a problem and be told, "You must be mistaken; > I've never had that problem." When something is "More likely" it does not make it probable. I've never sbeen told this when I've encountered a problem. > The daemon you know can be better than the daemon you don't. > > >Is that so hard to understand? > > I understand your idea, but again, it doesn't match everyone's idea > of what's best to run. Again, we go with proven versions even if they > have bugs -- so long as the bugs are KNOWN and aren't going to affect > us. Yes, that's incredibly anal-retentive conservative, but that's > also what the users want. I guess you have a choice. A newer stable which has the bug-fixes for a release, or the release which doesn't. The number of updates/changes between release and stable is non-existant compared to the changes that go into current. It's not like stable a great deal. AFAIK, it's only when a bug is found in release that a change is made to stable. If you can live without those fixes, good on ya. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message