From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 9 19:47:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from radius.wavefire.com (radius.wavefire.com [139.142.95.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 424A337B423 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 19:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darcy@ok-connect.com) Received: (qmail 24922 invoked from network); 10 May 2001 03:01:03 -0000 Received: from ccliii.caniserv.com (HELO dbitech) (darcyb@139.142.95.253) by radius.wavefire.com with SMTP; 10 May 2001 03:01:03 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.32.20010509194716.0349b0c8@mail.ok-connect.com> X-Sender: darcyb@mail.ok-connect.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 19:47:16 -0700 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Darcy Buskermolen Subject: Re: What gives? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok when you say none were successful, what exactly was happening ? The "the thing broken" statement doesn't help much if we don't know what the thing is. At 03:54 AM 5/10/01 +0200, you wrote: >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 > >--=20 >_______________________________________________________________________ >eBOA=AE est. 1982 >http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 >mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=3DInformation_request fax. +31-58-2160293 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message