Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:41:48 -0500 From: Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net> To: kalts@estpak.ee Cc: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>, Kenneth Mays <kmays2000@hotmail.com>, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?) Message-ID: <3DD7E2EC.5050805@vortex.wa4phy.net> In-Reply-To: <F32yELid1epQzz4IXQp00019522@hotmail.com> References: <F32yELid1epQzz4IXQp00019522@hotmail.com> <20021117224945.A806@grosbein.pp.ru> <20021117182801.GB1131@tiiu.internal>
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I've been using -stable for about 2 years now, and I can tell you this much. -Stable, at least for me, IS stable. Of course, I'm not running any heavy load on the machine, but in all of my rebuilds, I've never (knock on wood) had any problems that weren't caused by my own lack of knowledge. When I first moved to the -stable branch (4.2 I believe) from a 3.2-R system, I had a few problems crop up, but as the updates came out, the problems went away. I don't have to have the "latest and greatest" every few days or months.. sometimes I'll go a year before I'll decide to upgrade, then it's primarily due to security considerations, and not any specific fix. The one thing I can say to everyone involved in the building of FreeBSD is thank you for such good documentation. I unfortunately have to have a linux machine running due to specific software that will not run on *bsd, and from my very limited exposure to linux, I can say the documentation stinks. At some point, I will most likely go back to a -Release, but the thoughts of reworking and re-installing from scratch 10 years worth of software, files, and configurations really scares me, even with good, valid backups. When you progressivley move from a version of 1 to a version of 4.7 over 10 years, you learn a bit about what works and what doesn't. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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