Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:28:30 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr>, Peter Hoskin <peterh@ripewithdecay.com>, Hununu <hununu@netcabo.pt>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <006601c28ddf$604010f0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable>
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On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > From: "Lefteris Tsintjelis" <lefty@ene.asda.gr> > To: "Peter Hoskin" <peterh@ripewithdecay.com> > Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>; "Hununu" > <hununu@netcabo.pt>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 7:19 PM > Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? > > > > It sure is misleading. Why is it called -stable then? You would > expect > > to stand up to its name. > > > > Regards, > > Lefteris Tsintjelis > > > > It depends on your point of view. -CURRENT is noted as occasionally > being broken to the point that it won't even build. The RELENG_4 > branch (almost) always will. From a -CURRENT point of view, > RELENG_4 is "stable." > > However, to someone looking from the other direction, I can see > where it might be 'misleading.' Perhaps it should have been called > "FUTURE" and "CURRENT", instead. But I'm not sure that any > of the core team or committers would consider themselves 'prophets.' > ;-) Occasional problems with -STABLE I've always expected ... I don't run a typical server ... hell, I had a problem for awhile there where I was hitting the edge of the KVM, causing it to crash ... but, I swear, STABLE's stability has been going down, not improving ... to the point where I had one machine running a Sept10th kernel that would run for a few weeks in a stretch, but a newer kernel I'd be lucky to keep alive for 24-48hrs ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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