From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 16 19:28:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E8837B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:28:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CB043E77 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D078A1B76; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:28:30 -0400 (AST) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:28:30 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Cc: Lefteris Tsintjelis , Peter Hoskin , Hununu , Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? In-Reply-To: <006601c28ddf$604010f0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> Message-ID: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > From: "Lefteris Tsintjelis" > To: "Peter Hoskin" > Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" ; "Hununu" > ; > 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