From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 18:46:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29255 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (tnt3-59.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29232 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:46:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by n4hhe.ampr.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA06413 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:47:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199811100147.TAA06413@n4hhe.ampr.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: FreeBSD Questions From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Plea to core team In-reply-to: Message from Chris Shenton of "09 Nov 1998 15:27:18 EST." <86lnlkvcgp.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 19:47:39 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message