From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 16 10:36:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768AC37B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:36:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from speicher.org (sirius.speicher.org [209.74.10.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6C743E75 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:36:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Received: from localhost (geoff@localhost) by speicher.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAGIlGt38883; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:47:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:47:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? In-Reply-To: <20021116130950.C18650-400000@hub.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Over the past couple of months, I've been starting to wonder if the > Quality of FreeBSD's -STABLE branch has been deteriorating, to the point > that trusting it for any sort of "loaded server" environment is coming > into question ... [snip] > Am I expecting too much from FreeBSD-STABLE? Would I fair better if I > moved down into RELENG_4_7 and avoided -STABLE altogether? I think you're expecting too much from -stable. -stable is kind of a misnomer; read the Handbook section 21.2.2.1 ("What Is FreeBSD-STABLE?") for more. Your conclusion above is addressed there (spoiler: don't use -stable in production unless your test environment convinces you that it will work). Geoff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message