Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:04:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: matrix@chat.ru, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: V 3.5 Why? Message-ID: <200006181804.NAA63295@aurora.sol.net>
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> Hi! > > I was wondering WHY release 3.5 if 4.0-stable is here already for > some time and has prooven to better. Besides, 3.x is EASILY > upgradable to 4.0-stable (done it myself many times). > > So, WHY? (especially waste time and resources) > > Artem Because some of us don't like deploying technology with substantial changes until those changes have burned in for a year or so. Because some of us have things like device drivers that worked under 3.4 but don't under 4.0. Because some of us hate change-for-the-sake-of-change, but we do want to pick up the latest security fixes and other bugfixes. 4.0 has not "proven to be better". 4.0 has proven to be different, and an advance in some ways. However, most of the professionals out here who are using FreeBSD as an application server platform could really care less if they're running 5.0-current or 2.1.0-R - as long as it runs well, is easy to deploy, and is secure. Given those requirements, 3.5R is a fantastic way to keep abreast of the latest security and bugfix developments without risking the potential loss of stability that comes with any X.0 release. Personally, I pump out 3.4R boxes in about 35 minutes, from blank disk to fully loaded and configured systems with a few dozen custom compiled ports, application-specific configuration, and security embellishments all in place. When you pump out ten servers a day, you don't have time to screw around upgrading a system to -stable. I don't want the variability that doing so would give me... each system would have slightly different problems and issues. Everything looks different when you're responsible for hundreds of machines. -- ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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