Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 10:56:58 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The curtain is going down on 2.1-stable in 5 days! Message-ID: <199611081856.KAA29613@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 1996 10:00:32 CST." <199611081600.KAA17338@night.primate.wisc.edu>
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>What does it mean to recommend it "for commercial use"? I ask because >it seems the FreeBSD project has somewhat conflicting goals. Let me >illustrate using the yes-I-know-it's-a-sore-point illustration of IDE >CD drives. It means "suitable for use in commercial applications". This means that people like ISPs, that need a stable realeas of FreeBSD should use 2.1.6. Most of the commercial users of FreeBSD stay far - far away from our ATAPI CDROM support because they know its broken and has been repeatedly documented as such. Fortunately, that doesn't prevent most commercial users from getting what they need to get done with FreeBSD done. >-- >Paul DuBois >dubois@primate.wisc.edu >Home page: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois > Software: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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