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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:54:23 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Alexei Betin" <betin@belcom.ru>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: the way freebsd to be patched is sick
Message-ID:  <00b701c08b52$a4c49660$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <006f01c08ab3$8fa35900$4ac08dd5@belcom.ru>

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Alexei,

  I'm sorry you don't like the way that the Open
Source community does things.  I would suggest that
if you don't care to get source patches that you pay
the $1000 per year per server to BSDi to put your
servers under a FreeBSD service contract.  I'm quite
sure that if you do this that BSDi will be more than
happy to supply you with all the binary patches that
you want.

  Besides that, the BSDi service contract is a bargain
at $1K per server, compared to a service contract
on anyone else's stuff, be it Microsoft, or Sun or
whatever. 


Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alexei Betin
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:56 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: the way freebsd to be patched is sick
> 
> 
> I don't want to start a flame, but...
> 
> whoes that crazy idea to patch os by recompiling it?
> for many reasons I don't want to have compiler and
> source tree installed on my servers. I don't want to
> wait while it's being recompiled for several hours
> just for purpose of new `bind` to be installed. I don't
> want to hold my breath seing how freshly compiled
> os restarts on a production system...
> 
> 
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