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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2003 22:15:14 +0200
From:      Daniel Lang <langd-freebsd-hackers@leo.org>
To:        Les Biffle <les@ns3.safety.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB serial support on FreeBSD 3.5?
Message-ID:  <20030702201514.GA12742@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Hi,

Les Biffle wrote on Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:34:02PM -0700:
> > Oh, My dongle is on -current.
>=20
> Is that 3-Current?  I'm ready to cvsup to it, if it feels solid to you.
> We've a production product that has been rock-solid on 3.5-stable, and
> I don't want to join the ranks of the flaky product providers just to
> get USB serial support.
[..]

You're not joking?

3.5 was last release of the RELENG_3 branch. While it was released
"-current" was already FreeBSD 4.x. That was June 2000.

Right now, the RELENG_4 branch is already about to expire.
It will be around for a while, but not that long any more.

So if people talk about "-current" (and I'm sure this=20
includes Warner), they mean FreeBSD 5.x, or more
precisely 5.1-CURRENT.

Btw, if you think you join the ranks of a "flaky" product provider,
if you follow development of common sense, I'm not sure
what you are trying to achieve.

The RELENG_3 branch has some serious deficiencies and it is=20
no longer recommended for any production use (correct me if I'm wrong).

Of course, it may require some effort to adapt your firewall
code to a recent version of FreeBSD (which already include
more than one useful and working firewall implementations).

It seems to me, there is not much chance to avoid porting your
code to a recent -stable and/or -current, if you want to keep
up to date with developments (like USB), and probably also to remain
competitive.

Just my 0.02 EUR,
 Daniel
--=20
IRCnet: Mr-Spock                 - Work is for people, who don't surf - =20
 Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 18532 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/

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