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Date:      Sun, 10 Sep 1995 11:30:01 -0500 (CDT)
From:      faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
To:        jdl@chromatic.com
Cc:        jc@irbs.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sig 11
Message-ID:  <9509101630.AA03869@olympus>
In-Reply-To: <199509092313.QAA28456@xenon.chromatic.com> from "Jon Loeliger" at Sep 9, 95 04:13:12 pm

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> 
> John Capo scribbled:
> > These kinds of problems are all part of running -current.  Current
> > is a development tree and is quite often broken for one reason or
> > another.  Like the docs say, "The bleeding edge".
> > 
> > Sounds like you should be running -stable rather than -current.
> 
> Hmmm.  Is the problem here that people always think they want
> to be running "the latest release" and they equate that to
> the "current" system and get it wrong?  Should we maybe rename
> the -current as like, -development, -devel, -bleed or something?
> To make it *really* obvious.  I mean, I had to actually *read*
> FAQ to find this out... :-)
> 
> jdl
> 
Let's not.  I don't think I could stand to watch my box come up and say

FreeBSD bleeds.  :-)

One simply must give rope to allow people to hang themselves, else, they will
weave their own.

-- 
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 Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner
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