From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 16:44:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647BD37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDB743F43 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:44:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242]) by franky.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0F0hqZb024688; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:43:53 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242]) by hewey.af.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0F0hmNX033748; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:43:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:43:48 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: Trish Lynch Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available In-Reply-To: <20030114102704.A758-100000@femme> Message-ID: <20030115101916.G33417-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Trish Lynch wrote: > I just want to point out, POLA really only applies to -STABLE, and we're > talking very specifically about -CURRENT. > > IN -CURRENT, substantial changes can be made with little warning, and only > documentation sometimes (most of the time, people give a ***HEADS UP!*** > email on this list). > > However don;t assume because something is one way in the 4.x branch that > it will be the same in 5.x. If this were the case, we'd have very little > progress. > > -Trish > This makes sense, and I can live with it. I guess I'll have to 'forget' how FreeBSD has always done things in the past and relearn... Lots of things are very different - just this morning, I found out there is no 'visual configure'. Only took an hour to figure out why GENERIC was not finding the Adaptec 1542CF scsi card... While I'm here, dc(4) is still telling me its ethernet address is 00:00:00:00:00:00 and that there is 'no carrier'. It works fine otherwise. > > -- > Trish Lynch trish@bsdunix.net > Ecartis Core Team trish@listmistress.org > EFNet IRC Operator @ efnet.demon.co.uk AilleCat@EFNet > Key fingerprint = C44E 8E63 6E3C 18BD 608F E004 9DC7 C2E9 0E24 DFBD > > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message