From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 21 10:44:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA7E37BC4E for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:44:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AFFDC28; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:43:55 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000321163707.L5367@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> References: <001a01bf91c1$7f62a4b0$0304020a@NENYA> <200003191838.KAA40955@rah.star-gate.com> <20000319220453.A65973@ipass.net> <005d01bf9221$4660ac60$0304020a@NENYA> <20000320153429.A1373@ipass.net> <20000321121048.E49550@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> <20000321141055.E5367@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> <20000321163707.L5367@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:00:16 +0100 To: David Murphy From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance?) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:37 PM +0000 2000/3/21, David Murphy wrote: > Right, and if you try to upgrade your Solaris 7 desktop, which, while > not a production server, is a machine you personally need to do your > job, to Solaris 8, and it fails, and you call Sun about it, and they > tell you "Hey, what do you think you're doing? That's not ready for > real use yet!". You wouldn't be too impressed, would you? That's > basically the scenario I'm seeing with FreeBSD. If that is the impression you have gotten, then I apologize. I am not saying that 4.0 is not yet ready for installation on your desktops and other non-production servers, in fact that is precisely where it should be installed, and by a broader audience than it has gotten so far. I *am* saying that I do not think that it is ready yet for installation on production servers, just like Solaris 8 is not yet ready for installation on production servers. FreeBSD 4.0 is a commercial-quality OS that doesn't cost you anything to download and install (other than your time and whatever the cost might be to transfer the bits), and in fact I believe that it is of higher quality than anything else out there in the mid-range non-HA server environment -- with the possible exception of the most recent releases of the previous version of FreeBSD. Frankly, I think that speaks very highly of FreeBSD. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message