From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 07:42:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD3016A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:42:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.atcom.spb.ru (ns.atcom.spb.ru [213.182.169.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97ACA43D31 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:42:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from postfix@sendmail.ru) Received: from karputer (ppp-dialup-9.atcom.spb.ru [213.182.168.9]) by ns.atcom.spb.ru (Postfix) with SMTP id 866354BB4E; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:42:20 +0300 (MSK) X-AntiVirus: Checked by Dr.Web (http://www.drweb.net) Message-ID: <001201c3c18f$9ee88af0$0202a8c0@karputer> From: "toxa" To: "Andre Guibert de Bruet" References: <200312121910.14245.postfix@sendmail.ru> <20031213091736.C44419@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:41:46 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CURRENT state of modules X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 15:42:24 -0000 > > Kernel modules introduce a number of possible failure paths and an avenue > for malicious code to be loaded. As such, some might determine that the > flexibility isn't worth it for their production online systems. If uptime > and stability is that big a concern, you probably shouldn't be running > CURRENT in the first place. ;) > > Regards, > > > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > The main point is to get all hardware working properly on my lovely vaio laptop, this is not production server as you guess :) I get it all working under linux already (even softmodem) and now my will is to get it all working under my favourite OS, so current is my state :-)