From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 9 18:54:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0353B37B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 18:54:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA62691 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 03:54:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3AF9F4E8.52A31C48@eboa.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 03:54:48 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What gives? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG These last few days I've been upgrading. That is, attempting to. I tried Interbase/Firebird, Gnome 1.4, KDE 2, xemacs and some other ports. None of which succeeded. Some I tried multiple times. Alas. Which made me wonder. Is there a ports-stable? If not, why not? Surely there's a market for that. Do we really want to have Micro-Soft to have all the fun? Sure, they're trouble by bugs. Who isn't? But once you get the CD (or download) you can usually actually install and run it! So what stability does Micro-Soft has that FreeBSD hasn't? Just wondering. Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message