From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 10 21:34:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6779C37B404 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mkc-65-30-96-67.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (kc5vdj@65.30.96.67 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2002 04:34:44 -0000 Message-ID: <3CB51263.60007@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:34:43 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chris@aims.com.au Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current in Production References: <028d01c1e067$d6209f40$020aa8c0@aims.private> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do you own a Harley? Do the Mosh Pit? You definitely like riding the edge of insanity... -current is always in a state of flux... I say you lucked out... FreeBSD is killer stuff, but, I personally wouldn't risk a job on the odds of getting a stable -current when I needed one... Chris Knight wrote: > Howdy, > > I'd just like to thank the FreeBSD team for an outstanding job. > I've got a FreeBSD-current system in production running an Intranet that has > just exceeded one year's uptime. Admittedly, the snapshot I built was > 30/10/2000, but it does go to show that current can indeed be used for > production systems. The system only ever had one reboot and that was when > the installation was migrated to a new box. > For those that are interested, the Intranet uses Apache, PHP, Firebird and > OpenLDAP for various Web-based management applications/tasks. > Again, thanks to everyone responsible for providing a reliable and > dependable distribution, even when it's considered unstable and for > development purposes only. > > Regards, > Chris Knight > Systems Administrator > AIMS Independent Computer Professionals > Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 > Web: http://www.aims.com.au jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! ----------------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ----------------------------------------------------- "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message