Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:33:50 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using 5.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <20021125003350.GB15728@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <3DE16028.2060600@liwing.de> References: <3DE16028.2060600@liwing.de>
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Please do not cross-post to lists! On 2002-11-25 00:26, Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> wrote: > Hi, > > just a question to the possibilies using 5.0-RELEASE. In the "early > adopters guide" (chapter 1) it's written, that 5.0-RELEASE should be as > stable as possible to "getting a large number of users to test". But if > it's not recommented to use it in production environments, what test > results do you expect? That's very honest, in my opinion. The 5.0-RELEASE of FreeBSD brings many new and exciting features, which will definitely look inviting and interesting to the users who read the release notes. The people who wrote these features are always welcome for new comments, suggestions, or evenn complaints about the system works. They are honest though to admit that some of these things might cause problems that haven't been discovered yet, despite the tests done so far. Bearing that in mind, I am using FreeBSD-CURRENT at my workstation at home for over a year now. There were no serious problems, when I carefully read and kept notes of the changes that were daily going in. There were also occasions that I had to carefully reinstall the base system, paying attention not to delete any important data, after having broken it so horribly by `cvs up'-ing the wrong time. FreeBSD-CURRENT is a moving target, and 5.0-RELEASE is exactly what it says. A release for "early adopters". > Wouldn't it better to say: 5.0-CURRENT is not recommented for production > environments (as it's said 'bout using -STABLE blindly), 5.0-RELEASE may > be used in non-critical environment, but heavily use of backup tool is > recommented? The exact wording might not be perfect. I'm sure that Bruce Mah and the folks who work on the release notes for 5.0 will welcome any help you can give in that area :) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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