From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 30 13:52:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ants.pocketscience.com (gateway1.pocketscience.com [209.24.64.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF5937B962 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:52:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@pocketscience.com) Received: from pocketscience.com (southpark.i.pocketscience.com [10.10.4.2]) by ants.pocketscience.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id HXB8GACW; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:52:20 -0800 Message-ID: <38E3CC94.CF08C7D6@pocketscience.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:52:20 -0800 From: Brian Nelson Organization: PocketScience, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 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? References: <200003301625.QAA76045@loki.ideaglobal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, unless he/she is a member of the FreeBSD team, or WC CD-ROM, then you should not take their e-mail as the word of god. Kiril Mitev wrote: > > > As I recall, Didier Derny wrote: > > > I can't an many people can't upgrade the system on their machine > > > at the actual rythm of FreeBSD version (each one supposed to be the best > > > one and solve most of the problems :-))) ) > > > without a real stability (like the one with 2.x) this product > > > has no more value than linux or solaris, sco... > > > > So, is there some feature in the 3.x line that isn't in 2.2.x that > > you can't live without? If not, your course is clear. Put up a > > 2.2-STABLE system and quit worrying about stability. > > *ahem* > > In other words "do not use anything newer than 2.2 if you > worry about stability"... > > In other words "nothing in FreeBSD has improved stability > since 2.2" > > In other words "2.2 is our most stable version" > > (ever?) > > In other words ..... you get the drift ....... > > OUCH > > *off to downgrade all those servers ASAP* > > *oh, and replace them with 486's, after all 486's with > 2.2 on them have years of uptime* > > > -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 > > ok, I _might_ be exaggerating a bit .... but this reply *DOES* > come as a bit of a shock ..... > > -- > Kiril Mitev, IT Operations Mgr, London > IDEAglobal.com > Standard Corporate Disclaimer applies, see > http://www.ideaglobal.com/email-disclaimer.html > for details. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message