Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 14:56:05 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: me@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusion Message-ID: <199903202156.OAA02574@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <19671.921812560@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 18, 99 07:02:40 pm"
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>> I've not actually seen the FBSD disks in the shops yet, but I'm sure >> it won't be long before they are available that way. Nowhere (on my >> disk set at least) does it mention the above quote. In fact it says >> ``If you want stable networking and a powerful development >> environment, FreeBSD is the Operating system for you''. > > You just haven't looked very carefully. ;) From the README.TXT > in 3.0-RELEASE: > > TARGET AUDIENCE: > ---------------- > This release is aimed primarily at early-adopters and the various > other folks who want to get on board with 3.0 and are willing to deal > with the various down-sides of a "dot-zero" release. We have naturally > done our best to ensure that 3.0 performs as advertised but, as the > first release on a branch which has seen some very radical changes > from 2.2.x (SMP, ELF, new boot blocks, many kernel changes, etc), it's > also very new technology and will require at least one more release > along the 3.0 branch before it's ready for "production" purposes. But to be fair, if he's talking in the context of the CD set in a store (as he seems to be above), he can't read the README.TXT until after he's purchased the set. Too late. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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