From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 30 8:57:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FFF37B78D; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:57:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA42974; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:57:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:57:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Kiril Mitev Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, didier@omnix.net, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, cracauer@cons.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Let 3.x die ASAP? In-Reply-To: <200003301625.QAA76045@loki.ideaglobal.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Kiril Mitev wrote: > In other words "2.2 is our most stable version" I hope you realise that no single person speaks for FreeBSD, especially people who aren't committers. That said, a lot of people found 2.2 to be a very stable branch. A lot of people found the same thing about 3.4, but others didn't. Others complained about 2.2 as well - if a version doesn't work on your machine for whatever reason then of course you're going to complain about it being 'unstable' (some people take this to ridiculous extremes). FreeBSD isn't perfect - it is, I claim, very good, and better than the competition, but their marketing departments do everything they can to convince you otherwise. If for some reason they don't want to go to the 3.x branch because of any percieved or real problems, staying with 2.2 is a perfectly reasonable option if it works for you. This isn't Microsoft where we instantly stop supporting our previous releases the moment we release an 'upgrade' (true, the ports collection no longer supports 2.x, but thats for sheer manpower reasons that it's difficult enough to make ports work on 3 branches, let alone 4). Use the tool that works for you. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message