From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 23: 1:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E0837B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F283643E4A for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz ([10.1.0.1]) by bellavista.cz (8.9.3/8.9.8) with ESMTP id IAA07628 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:00:56 +0100 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E595B2FDAB2; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:00:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:00:22 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: questions Subject: Re: using 5.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <20021125070022.GL77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: questions References: <3DE16028.2060600@liwing.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DE16028.2060600@liwing.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # rehsack@liwing.de / 2002-11-25 00:26:32 +0100: > just a question to the possibilies using 5.0-RELEASE. In the "early > adopters guide" (chapter 1) it's written, that 5.0-RELEASE should be as > stable as possible to "getting a large number of users to test". But if > it's not recommented to use it in production environments, what test > results do you expect? that's a dilemma quite a few software dev teams have. the more a software needs testing, the less are users willing to use it. > I know many companies located in Halle (where we resides) which are > using linux, not because it's more stable but because SuSE tells: it's > 8.0 and we tested and it's great. The simply believe the recommendation > of SuSE (or whoever) and if sth. fails, they think: Hmm - nothing paid, > who really cares? SuSE's not here to create the best software possible. They're here to make the most money possible. Just business. (They happen to have based their business on open source, but that's irrelevant.) Basically, you are comparing apples to oranges: FreeBSD, the operating system, to SuSE GmBH. I'm sure that if FreeBSD was a trademark of (and developed by) FreeBSD, Inc., we would be reading the same stuff about it. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message