On 1/17/12 4:39 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets > MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's > frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until > ESX 5 to officially support 8.2! > > More releases / snapshots of -STABLE helps people on physical servers, > but anyone who runs VMs on Xen or VMWare won't get any support for those > versions because they didn't go through the QA process yet. FreeBSD is > increasingly becoming a third world citizen thanks to virtualization > efforts being focused on Linux, so I feel that more frequent releases > won't help as many people as you think. >
Running FBSD in a *production* environment means you want something stable and tested. -STABLE does not fulfill the requirements I'm afraid. We've had to downgrade some boxes from 8.2-STABLE to -RELEASE here. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
