On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:43:33PM -0700, Alexey Yakimovich wrote: > My advice to FreeBSD release engineering team: > - do more testing; > - have it tested with hardware what was published in "Hardware Notes"; > - do not release it for production if it is not in production quality; > - reread again what was written by yourself regarding 4.4 release > quality. > I wish to say more. > > This mail was written because I like FreeBSD and I want to continue > using it. And wouldn't mind to wait longer for real production quality > releases instead of start using something else. And please, I know, it's > open source project. > > Best regards, > Real FreeBSD fan
Thank you for expressing my exact same sentiments. I'm still a huge FreeBSD fan and switching to anything else (well, perhaps DragonFly) seems out of the question, but my faith is being tested a lot lately. Having switched some of my companies production machines to 5.4, since it was (in my eyes falsely) called a 'production release', FreeBSD's reputation within the less technical parts of the company has taken a large dent. Luckily they know as well that there's still no comparison to FreeBSD 4.x; top of my ruptime looks like: up 1124+12:15, 1 user, load 2.14, 2.10, 2.02 up 1095+06:22, 11 users, load 2.01, 2.04, 2.02 up 1095+05:31, 5 users, load 2.38, 2.31, 2.24 up 1095+05:06, 2 users, load 1.07, 1.08, 1.01 up 1095+04:46, 0 users, load 1.09, 1.08, 1.01 up 1087+21:04, 1 user, load 1.01, 1.00, 1.00 but then again, I'd really like to use the new 5.x features in a stable environment... Marc also a Real FreeBSD fan :-)
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