Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:35:55 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Charlie ROOT <root@hammerfell.dhs.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Congrats! Message-ID: <20000810133555.A34348@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101415320.8189-100000@hammerfell.dhs.org>; from root@hammerfell.dhs.org on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:21:06PM -0600 References: <B14AF62CDA08D4118B8C00508B44A0B5012ED5@server02.belenus.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101415320.8189-100000@hammerfell.dhs.org>
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:21:06PM -0600, Charlie ROOT wrote: > > [I hope no one takes this message as spam.] > > With all the complaints and hardships people come across when upgrading > (particularly across the 3.x -> 4.x boundary), I'm sure it sometimes looks > like no one is ever satisfied, and the whole mess deserves to be sent to > /dev/null. > > I, however, would like to congratulate the FreeBSD (and, by proxy, the > contributing code from all the *BSDs and even Linux, in parts) team for > their hard work. The upgrade worked for me. Yes, it required some > tweaking, part of which resulted from me not knowing something, or > thinking I knew it better than the people who write UPDATING, but it > _WORKED_. That in itself is amazing. Approximately two hundred megabytes > of source code compiled without a hitch, and upgraded a system in > situ. AMAZING. > The published help posted to -questions helped me move from 3.2 to 4.0 last may... on my research and experimental platform, tho. Not *here*. Here, I am still at 3.2. My question for this list is: will it make more sense to upgrade this 3.2 system to 3.5 before I make the Great Leap? With 3.2 -> 3.5 I won't be holding my breath and quaking in my boots.... Anybody?? gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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