From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 16 22:46:34 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 B470E37B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:46:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C65743E8A for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 15453 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2002 06:46:31 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 17 Nov 2002 06:46:31 -0000 Message-ID: <3DD73B47.6000105@tenebras.com> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:46:31 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr-fr, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lefteris Tsintjelis Cc: Peter Hoskin , "Marc G. Fournier" , Hununu , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? References: <20021117115616.T301-100000@extortion.peterh.dropbear.id.au> <3DD6EEA0.AD524CA2@ene.asda.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > It sure is misleading. Why is it called -stable then? You would expect > to stand up to its name. Cf. Humpty Dumpty, I'm afraid. -STABLE doesn't mean stable at all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message