Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:01:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Ts'o" <dan@dna.tsolab.org> To: chris@tci.com Cc: mmercer@ipass.net, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, me@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusion Message-ID: <199903190501.AAA10701@dna.tsolab.org> In-Reply-To: <199903190435.VAA06877@lazlo.tci.com> from "chris@tci.com" at Mar 18, 99 09:35:10 pm
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> Jordan's comments may very well be true, but how is an > end consumer who has never before in their life seen it supposed to see > the README.TXT without first buying the package? uh... the Release Notes are easily available on the Web, as are many other bits of info that would have provided the same pictures. I wouldn't ever deploy ANY OS Unix, Windows or whatever, without getting some kind of feedback from its user community, not only about what that OS is like in general, but what specific release, patchlevel etc is the best to go with at that particular point in time. > In the Winders world > (and, I would venture to say, in most others) the more recent version > of Product X is always preferred over the older alternative. I most certainly disagree with this statement. I guess you don't remember the fiasco with DOS 4.0, or Windows 3.0. With nearly ever milestone release of a MS OS, it was very questionable about moving to it quickly -- in fact foolish to do so. WinNT 3.1 was a joke and it wasn't until 3.51 that it arguably useable. The transition to Win95 was gradual -- if it wasn't for those MS forced-preloads, it would have taken much longer. Remember the nickname for WfWG 3.11 was Windows for Warehouses, because no one wanted to transition to it (again it took the MS forced-preloads to start the ball rolling, after at least 6-9 months of stalled deployment). Corporate MIS is very leery of jumping to major releases, and rightfully so. They are currently very leery of moving to NT 5.0. So the move to FreeBSD 3.0, by its very numbering as a dot-zero release should have been enough to prompt SOME investigation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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