From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 16 16:56:28 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 2277637B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:56:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from scan.pnc.com.au (scan.pnc.com.au [203.13.174.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED9CF43E4A for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:56:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peterh@ripewithdecay.com) Received: (qmail 26477 invoked by uid 84); 17 Nov 2002 12:06:20 +1100 Received: from unknown (HELO dialup-175.129.221.203.acc02-high-pen.comindico.com.au) (203.13.174.1) by scan.pnc.com.au with SMTP; 17 Nov 2002 12:06:18 +1100 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:56:52 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Hoskin X-X-Sender: peterh@extortion.peterh.dropbear.id.au To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: Hununu , Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? In-Reply-To: <20021116201249.F23359-100000@hub.org> Message-ID: <20021117115616.T301-100000@extortion.peterh.dropbear.id.au> 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 STABLE is still a development branch. The name is misleading. If I were you, I'd install & run release. Regards, Peter Hoskin On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:19:24 -0400 (AST) > From: Marc G. Fournier > To: Hununu > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? > > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Hununu wrote: > > > On 16 Nov 2002 at 13:47, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: > > > > > > 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). > > > > Exactly. I have some boxes that run -stable. Though, I cvsup and install > > world & kernel on one box I can afford to fail. If it works ok, then I > > slowly move it to others.. -STABLE is not meant to be rock solid, and > > running it on production servers can be time-consuming for various > > reasons. > > The thing is, I run -STABLE on about a dozen desktops and servers at my > day job, and have never had a problem ... but they don't carry near as > much load as venus/jupiter do ... > > > > 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