From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 17 11:11:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC34737B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mother.ludd.luth.se (mother.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626CF43E75 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:11:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pantzer@ludd.luth.se) Received: from skalman.campus.luth.se (skalman.campus.luth.se [130.240.197.52]) by mother.ludd.luth.se (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id gAHJBGX07962; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:11:16 +0100 (MET) Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? From: Mattias Pantzare To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Chat In-Reply-To: <056001c28e60$2af21cf0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DD7CF81.7030407@cream.org> <056001c28e60$2af21cf0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 17 Nov 2002 20:11:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1037560276.1094.19.camel@skalman.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 18:38, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Andrew writes: > > > I think the point is that if everyone took > > that opinion then -stable would never get > > stress-tested in the sort of environment > > that Marc is using it, and we would never > > find some problems until a -release was > > rolled making the -release far less stable > > than we are used to. > > That's right. Thank goodness there are still people around who are willing > to take unnecessary risks. As long as they aren't working in my > organization. > > Of course, the ideal would be for the developers to stress-test the OS, > since they wrote it. Apparently that doesn't happen for FreeBSD. One of > the unfortunate consequences of open source, I suspect. You simply can't stresstest to the point that customers won't find problems anyway. That is why the closed source companies have betatesters and releases betas to the public.That is realy not an open vs closed source argument at all. That is also why one finds buggs even in releases. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message