From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 29 17: 1:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A3937B503; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:01:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8U01Hc22113; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:01:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:01:17 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FreeBSD-SA-00:41.elf? Message-ID: <20000929170116.U27736@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000927182443.7666.qmail@smx.pair.com> <200009280516.e8S5Gi507297@green.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200009280516.e8S5Gi507297@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:16:44AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Brian F. Feldman [000929 16:19] wrote: > > > > > Taking into account that you've tested it, now I'd be able to MFC it :) > It's just not a good idea to use 3.X anyway -- the 4.X series has started > off and continued much stronger than 3.X. It was a stretch even doing the > last 3.5-RELEASE because of so much general feeling of, "ugh, why should > anyone use 3.X?" among the crew. > > I should say we would do well to stop "supporting" 3.X anymore and let > people know (a bit louder perhaps?) 3.5 is the end of the line for 3.X and > the proper solution is an upgrade to _4.X_. It's simply not very > interesting or useful to be supporting something that should be phased out > instead of "sorta upgraded" to the latest small increment of a quietly > dying line. > We could make it so that the next cvsup of 3.5.x installs an installer kernel that fires up sysinstall at boot. :) Of course I'm kidding. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message