Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 05:07:37 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What gives? Message-ID: <20010510050737.A2285@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3AF9F4E8.52A31C48@eboa.com>; from roelof@eboa.com on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:54:48AM %2B0200 References: <3AF9F4E8.52A31C48@eboa.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:54:48AM +0200, Roelof Osinga wrote: > These last few days I've been upgrading. > > That is, attempting to. I tried Interbase/Firebird, Gnome 1.4, KDE 2, > xemacs and some other ports. None of which succeeded. > > Some I tried multiple times. Alas. Too bad you couldn't actually tell us what went wrong, we could have helped you. > Which made me wonder. Is there a ports-stable? > > If not, why not? Surely there's a market for that. Do we really want > to have Micro-Soft to have all the fun? Sure, they're trouble by bugs. > Who isn't? But once you get the CD (or download) you can usually > actually install and run it! Not enough manpower, and it still wouldn't help if you screw up a ports-stable upgrade like you apparently did with your ports upgrade. > So what stability does Micro-Soft has that FreeBSD hasn't? Specious question, doesn't need an answer. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6+oSJWry0BWjoQKURAvWoAJ4lHoaLtkh6bBQsnzhIPXVPvWKitQCfRN/s RI8QsCOpNPxhHL6B0sW3Lnw= =qpCa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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