From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 31 8:56: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2422037BCD8 for <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:56:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA73912; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:55:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA35705; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:55:27 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003311655.JAA35705@harmony.village.org> 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:47:05 +0100." <XFMail.000330214705.steveo@eircom.net> References: <XFMail.000330214705.steveo@eircom.net> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:55:27 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message