From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 08:09:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5DE1065679 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:09:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timp87@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E448FC0A for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so2016517wwi.31 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:09:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=4zRBWNPG0EeuvyleedGi96umWQC8Y7mwQisXdFUkSnM=; b=AAhDCDfC+mNfBP94B1EQKer5ZAcEMEIT7XAnK3uFuqgOu1ecBeQkZBdp5jTLJ5Vkyh ob/wSlwaWtwv/mjhyHhprybdrLz0+qK9urw54A6cJpewg/fMKoCIqI78BvUKgA+QVaJD Or6KkdWOsNiWzE8MXzQH43ChiyZ4Sx7SW879Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.81.205 with SMTP id y13mr9615357fak.34.1319011787266; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.24.67 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:09:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4e994faf.05d9650a.61a3.11f5SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> References: <4e994faf.05d9650a.61a3.11f5SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:09:47 +0400 Message-ID: From: Pavel Timofeev To: Thomas Mueller X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:24:29 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, George Kontostanos Subject: Re: x.0 RELASE isn't for production. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:09:49 -0000 2011/10/15 Thomas Mueller > > MHO different OS releases (Unix or not) are usually at the state of > > FreeBSD current regarding stability. FreeBSD late BETA and early RC > > are usually very stable. Therefore the approximate one month period > > between the first beta and the release is adequate time. > > I see your point, especially after installing NetBSD on my new computer and > having big problems, like not being able to startx or not neing able to boot > at all. > > On the old computer, I also had big problems with NetBSD, including > release, stable and current versions. > > Building FreeBSD or NetBSD from source might be not feasible on older > computers short on RAM and/or disk space. > Bingo! I have atom-based computers and building world is torture. > > There are more frequent current FreeBSD snapshots available on > > http://pub.allbsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-snapshots/ > > This site also has snapshots for other BSDs. > Great! But it's not official. If this link was in freebsd.org it would be cool. > Tom > >