Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 19:47:39 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Plea to core team Message-ID: <199811100147.TAA06413@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> of "09 Nov 1998 15:27:18 EST." <86lnlkvcgp.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com>
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Chris Shenton writes:
> Microsoft monkeys will always download the latest version ("Oh, look:
> NT5-alpha2-sp17 just came out, let's put it on our exchange server!").
> I do agree that if you're not clever enough to discern whether to use
> -STABLE or x.0-RELEASE then the default should be -STABLE.
*-monkeys will do that. Its one of my fondest memories of Lin*x, the
way the very latest version of everything was rolled into "releases".
How each Lin*x distribution was trying to one-up the competition by
being the first to include the latest version (of say, gcc).
But it really hit home one day at a computer show/flea market when two
Linusians standing at a table were comparing aloud the packing list on
two different Lin*x packages, trying to decide which was the latest and
newest and bestest.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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