From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 10 13:36: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EC037BC89 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28793; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.9.3/8.7.3) id NAA34396; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:35:55 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Charlie ROOT Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Congrats! Message-ID: <20000810133555.A34348@tao.thought.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from root@hammerfell.dhs.org on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:21:06PM -0600 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:21:06PM -0600, Charlie ROOT wrote: > > [I hope no one takes this message as spam.] > > With all the complaints and hardships people come across when upgrading > (particularly across the 3.x -> 4.x boundary), I'm sure it sometimes looks > like no one is ever satisfied, and the whole mess deserves to be sent to > /dev/null. > > I, however, would like to congratulate the FreeBSD (and, by proxy, the > contributing code from all the *BSDs and even Linux, in parts) team for > their hard work. The upgrade worked for me. Yes, it required some > tweaking, part of which resulted from me not knowing something, or > thinking I knew it better than the people who write UPDATING, but it > _WORKED_. That in itself is amazing. Approximately two hundred megabytes > of source code compiled without a hitch, and upgraded a system in > situ. AMAZING. > The published help posted to -questions helped me move from 3.2 to 4.0 last may... on my research and experimental platform, tho. Not *here*. Here, I am still at 3.2. My question for this list is: will it make more sense to upgrade this 3.2 system to 3.5 before I make the Great Leap? With 3.2 -> 3.5 I won't be holding my breath and quaking in my boots.... Anybody?? gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message