From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 17 14:38:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tsolab.org (dnn.rockefeller.edu [129.85.17.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE9C1516D for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:38:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dna.tsolab.org) Received: from dna.tsolab.org (dna.tsolab.org [129.85.17.125]) by tsolab.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA00855; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:38:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dan@dna.tsolab.org) Received: by dna.tsolab.org (RAA03232); Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:45:36 -0500 From: "Dan Ts'o" Message-Id: <199903172245.RAA03232@dna.tsolab.org> Subject: Re: Confusion To: kiril@idea.co.uk (Kiril Mitev) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:45:33 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <99031722052900.11541@loki.idea.co.uk> from "Kiril Mitev" at Mar 17, 99 09:57:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Dan Ts'o furiously typed away: > > > > I think it was always abundantly clear that the 3.0 release was never > > considered truly suitable for production deployment > > I beg to disagree. > > IIRC, the hype (sorry, true) was that 4.0 is the current branch & > 3.* is the stable branch.... Well I guess we disagree. The topic is the release 3.0, NOT 3.*. Here is the an excerpt from the 3.0 annoucement: : After what can only be described as a heroic effort by the FreeBSD : Project volunteers, the long-awaited release of FreeBSD 3.0 is now : out! This release is primarily aimed at developers and early-adopters, : though many ISPs have reported good results when using it in production : (not that we recommend this to any but the most highly skilled). Hence my statement that it was *abundantly clear* that the 3.0 release was never intended for general production work. There were so, so many changes and new facilities in 3.0 that I can't imagine anyone considering it as full shaken down and ready for production work from the get go. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message