Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:47:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10211161342080.38863-100000@speicher.org> In-Reply-To: <20021116130950.C18650-400000@hub.org>
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On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Over the past couple of months, I've been starting to wonder if the
> Quality of FreeBSD's -STABLE branch has been deteriorating, to the point
> that trusting it for any sort of "loaded server" environment is coming
> into question ...
[snip]
> Am I expecting too much from FreeBSD-STABLE? Would I fair better if I
> moved down into RELENG_4_7 and avoided -STABLE altogether?
I think you're expecting too much from -stable. -stable is kind of a
misnomer; read the Handbook section 21.2.2.1 ("What Is FreeBSD-STABLE?")
for more. Your conclusion above is addressed there (spoiler: don't use
-stable in production unless your test environment convinces you that it
will work).
Geoff
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