> On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested > > As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically > it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer > version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many things have changed > since then. > > Doug
So you're saying that he should have been using 8.3-RELEASE, then. If you'll kindly go over to http://www.freebsd.org and look under "Latest Releases", please note that "8.2" is a production release. If you don't want it to be a production release, then find a way to make it so, but please don't snipe at people who are using the code that the FreeBSD project has indicated is a current production offering. There are many good reasons not to run arbitrary snapshots on your production gear. It's unrealistic to expect people to run non- RELEASE non-production code on their production gear. We can have that discussion if you don't understand that, drop me a note off- list and I'll be happy to explain it. Otherwise, you've told him to run a "newer version," of which NONE IS AVAILABLE, unless you're thinking 9.0, but FreeBSD has a rather catastrophic history of "point zero" releases, and most clueful admins won't run those in production without carefully measuring the risks and benefits. So you've basically told him to run a newer version without any such version being realistically available. WTF? You want people not to use releases that "came out over a year ago"? The generally sensible solution to that is to release RELEASEs more than once every fourteen or fifteen months. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. _______________________________________________ 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"
