From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 19 8:31:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2720937B408 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:31:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f6JFUg887558; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:30:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:30:42 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Userbase of -current Message-ID: <20010719103042.E3398@futuresouth.com> References: <20010718061815.BCEEE38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:34:41PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 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 On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:34:41PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Garance A Drosihn remarked > At 11:18 PM -0700 7/17/01, Peter Wemm wrote: > >If I had to guess, I'd put the total [genuine] -current userbase > >at between 20 and 50 people. And many of those intentionally lag > >by a few weeks to a month or two. > > At the kernel-confab at usenix, I heard some people talking about > how "current wasn't really as bad as people assume it is". I must > admit I wonder how much current is actively used. I know I try > to build a new up-to-date current every two or three weeks, but I > don't do much more on it than test a few changes. I am certainly > not "stress-testing" it. Almost all of my real day-to-day work is > done on machines which are tracking -stable. FWIW, without extraordinary reason, I don't run 'production' machines on -CURRENT (I think the last time I did so was when I ran a news server on 3.0-CURRENT). However, my workstation runs -CURRENT, and my dialup router does as well (mainly to make it easier to update), my laptop... come to think of it, almost all my of personal machines run -CURRENT, except for one that runs 2.1-STABLE (386SX. 4 MB RAM. 80 meg disk. Last benchmark: 13 days for a buildworld. Don't think I'll update it any time soon). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message