From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 17 12:33:55 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 66F4237B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:33:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F5B43E4A for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:33:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74F38A1AF4; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:33:51 -0400 (AST) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:33:51 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Mike Hoskins Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? In-Reply-To: <20021117044229.Q29719-100000@fubar.adept.org> Message-ID: <20021117161953.M23359-100000@hub.org> 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 On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Mike Hoskins wrote: > I'm not sure if the earlier post claiming -stable use since '94 or so is > accurate, but if it is, as another pointed out, you should have seen > similar periods in -STABLE before now and been better prepared to avoid > these types of situations. '92 was Linux ... '92 moved to BSDi since Linux was lucky to run for more then an hour once connected to the Internet ... '94 (or '95) moved to FreeBSD since BSDi changed their pricing structuremaking it near impossible to afford for 'the little man' ... As for 'similar periods' ... you know, I've been running -STABLE on desktops and low end servers over the past 5 years at the Univesrity, slowly replacing Solaris as the applications they run permit ... so far, in 5 years, I've *yet* to be burnt, but none of these are running near as heavy load ... so no, other then on venus/jupiter, I haven' tnot seen similar periods of instability ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message