Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:34:59 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Artem Koutchine" <matrix@chat.ru>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: V 3.5 Why? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000618172141.04e499b0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <002901bfd946$e4862d40$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>
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At 11:01 AM 6/18/2000, Artem Koutchine wrote: >Hi! > >I was wondering WHY release 3.5 if 4.0-stable is here already for >some time and has prooven to better. Besides, 3.x is EASILY >upgradable to 4.0-stable (done it myself many times). > >So, WHY? (especially waste time and resources) > >Artem What Joe Greco said. Those of us who create and run production servers find the predictability, familiarity, and rock solid stability of a .2-or-greater release to be worth far more than the novelty of a .0 release. A few of our workstations are running selected 4.0 snapshots, but servers will get 3.X releases (or selected snapshots) until FreeBSD 4.2 comes out. We will then go to 4.2 if it has proven to have no major glitches for two weeks after release and has all of the drivers we need. Software vendors (such as Microsoft) which attempt to force .0 releases upon their clients are generally hoping to use them as unpaid beta testers. .0 releases of FreeBSD are generally much better than .0 releases of Microsoft products, but there are ALWAYS some bugs to be shaken out. We find that the stability crossover point is usually at the .2 release. In the specific case of 3.2-RELEASE, some glitches that surfaced caused us to wait a bit longer. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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