Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:42:01 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: davids@webmaster.com, mike@smith.net.au, serge69@nym.alias.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Message-ID: <374C0839.AD2EE3FC@newsguy.com> References: <199905252146.XAA05453@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > > There is one detail I miss: most commercial products are supported by > supplying limited scale fixes (OK, sometime a *lot* of them) instead of > a wholesale upgrade. > > Not that I advocate starting a patch circus like most of the commercial folks > mind you! Just an observation. We also do that, through cvsup. Of course, the process of installing said fixes involves a make world, which could as well be a black box. Can you tell the difference between that and applying a service pack? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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