Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:29:44 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Danny Horne <danny@clifftop.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Curious about release schedule Message-ID: <20020610102944.A75456@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <AAECJADGHMJFJLKCHNJDMEDBDJAA.danny@clifftop.net>; from danny@clifftop.net on Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:53:03PM %2B0100 References: <AAECJADGHMJFJLKCHNJDMEDBDJAA.danny@clifftop.net>
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On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:53:03PM +0100, Danny Horne wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if this isn't the right group, but I'm curious as to why there's a > version 4.8 of FreeBSD being released more than 2 months after version 5 has > been released. Hello, Having survived 2.2.0-R, 3.0-R, and 4.0-R, I have to say: The .0 release can be scary. Very, very scary. Heck, 3.x didn't become really solid until about 3.2-3.3. 4.0 was an exception to the rule, and was actually a pretty good .0. 5.0-stable promises to have all sorts of nifty features. These features promise to introduce new and interesting bugs. Everything from the random number generator to kernel throads has been redone. The potential for unexpected interactions between these components is huge. As a long-time FreeBSD devotee and rather experienced sysadmin, I probably won't be installing 5.x in production until at least 5.2-R. I hope I'm wrong, but I think a lot of people are going to install 5.0-R and be in for a big, unpleasant surprise when their particular situation exposes nasty horrible bugs. I use FreeBSD so I can sleep at night. 5.0-R is a necessary step along our way to kicking the software world's butt. But I plan to keep using 4.x on mission-critical systems for some time after it appears. Many other sysadmins feel the same way. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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