From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 25 18:36:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2259914F3A for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:35:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cwass99@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.114.108.234]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991126023353.ESEC6014.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@home.com> for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:33:53 -0800 Message-ID: <383DF187.4EB4A176@home.com> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 21:33:43 -0500 From: Colin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... References: <11244.943555121@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > -current (all the latest greatest experimental). > > -stable (all the latest gretest "Stable" stuff). > > -missioncritical (conservative release, once a year or so - only bug > > fixes after release). > > Actually, the -missioncritical branch is sort of provided for > now as a function of -previousstable. There are plenty of people still > running 2.2.x, for example, and you even still occasionally see commits > to the 2.2.x branch. > > - Jordan > I can't believe this is a surprise to that many people. Any major software has users running anything from the latest/greatest (-current) to something they got some time in the past that works great (2.x) to every possible combination in between. My point is, if a new release every quarter scares you, upgrade once/year (except bugfixes/security patches) and get on with your life. I used 3.0 for several months and life was good, and it still runs on one of my machines. I upgraded this one for several reasons that were specific to me, your requirements will vary. For those of you who think FreeBSD changes too quickly, look around the industry. How many "patch sets" from the other *ix vendors (released monthly to quarterly) include new features? Cheers, Colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message