From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 30 3:19:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.wrs.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379B337B690 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 03:19:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davidhol@windriver.com) Received: from papermill.wrs.com (papermill [147.11.48.34]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA27590; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 03:19:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from papermill (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by papermill.wrs.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id DAA14184; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 03:19:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003301119.DAA14184@papermill.wrs.com> To: Martin Cracauer Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Holloway Subject: Re: BSD VS BDS In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:16:44 +0200." <20000330121644.B1022@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 03:19:31 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh I completely disagree. Many serious orgnanizations and people concerned with stability work with 3.x and plan on sticking with 3.x until many of the serious changes to 4.0 have proven themselves. The gcc (2.9.x -- 3.x) compiler for example, has only just recently become as rock solid as the standard gcc 2.7.2.3 for freebsd 3.x In message <20000330121644.B1022@cons.org>, Martin Cracauer writes: >In <81876428.13.1636@mx1-12.onmedia.com>, p_a_r wrote: >> Ok but i downloaded the 3.3-stable is there some problems whit that >> and whats so good in the new 4.0?? > >Oh no, not again. 3.3 is not "bad", but I would recommend updating to >4.0/4.1 instead of 3.4/3.5 when the time comes. Higher 3.x releases - >in my opinion - suffer a little from not enough testing when teh >developers were already approching 4.0. > >Martin >-- >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ > Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message