SteveB wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:54 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs
> > Linux, Solaris,
> > and NT)
> >
> > >In the open source
> > >world is there a official QA process or group. Is there a FreeBSD
> > >test suite that releases go through. QA is unglamorous work, but
> > >needs to be done.
> >
> > I don't know about the "official" process, but I will tell
> > you that I'd
> > rather have my life depend on FreeBSD-current than on
> > Windows NT, despite
> > the "QA cycle".
> >
> > There are many ways to do effective QA.
> >
> > -s
> >
> It would just make pitching FreeBSD and other open OS's in the
> enterprise a lot easier if there was an QA process that official
> releases went through. Also volunteering to QA would be a good
> training ground to gain familiarity with a OS and a chance to
> communicate with developers.
By the way, there is some QA activity going on for Linux-64. Not that
it's going too actively but may be worth looking at. The [weak]
backbone of Linux-64 testing is SCO/Caldera porting the UnixWare
test suites to Linux, so you may want to look at this stuff.
-SB
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