From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 20 20:32: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA7D37B422 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03982; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:31:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200009210331.UAA03982@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Whats is this? FBSD 4.1 isn't stable! In-Reply-To: <20000920185458.B29063@lcs.mit.edu> from Benjamin Greenwald at "Sep 20, 0 06:54:58 pm" To: beng@lcs.mit.edu (Benjamin Greenwald) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:31:11 -0700 (MST) Cc: ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Benjamin Greenwald wrote: > Generally, the system gets more robust the more releases there are > down a particular branch. That is one of the reasons some people > continue to use FreeBSD-3.x ... they don't yet trust -Stable. Or, in my case, 2.2.8-STABLE, which is rock solid for what I do. Bitrot in the ports collection is my only grief, since the ports collection doesn't make an effort to support the 2.x tree. If I needed SMP, or some other VM magic, I might change my mind. But... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message