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To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>
Subject: Re: Stability and versions - was Re: Let 3.x die ASAP? 
Cc: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:55:27 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <XFMail.000330214705.steveo@eircom.net> "Steve O'Hara-Smith" writes:
:         It may very well be the case that 2.2-stable is currently the most
: stable FreeBSD around, the main reason for this is that for quite some
: time now it has been getting _only_ bug and security fixes (IIRC only the
: latter for some time).

And only sometimes.  there are lots of security nasties that haven't
been and never will be fixed in 2.2.x.

Warner


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