Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?

2002-11-19 Thread Wes Peters
Bob Johnson wrote: > > On Saturday 16 November 2002 08:19 pm, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > > It sure is misleading. Why is it called -stable then? You would expect > > to stand up to its name. > > It is called -stable because once upon a time it was intended to > BE stable. Commits to -stable we

Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?

2002-11-18 Thread The Anarcat
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Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?)

2002-11-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:02:55AM +0100, Thomas Seck wrote: > * Marc G. Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Thomas Seck wrote: > > > >> You have chosen to maintain systems which stretch FreeBSD to its limits > >> and uncover bugs lurking in the code. This is great. But you c

Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?)

2002-11-17 Thread Thomas Seck
* Marc G. Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Thomas Seck wrote: > >> You have chosen to maintain systems which stretch FreeBSD to its limits >> and uncover bugs lurking in the code. This is great. But you cannot do >> so on the one hand and refuse to face the administrative work

Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?)

2002-11-17 Thread Gregory Bond
> You have chosen to maintain systems which stretch FreeBSD to its limits > and uncover bugs lurking in the code. This is great. But you cannot do > so on the one hand and refuse to face the administrative work on the > other hand. And this is not a FreeBSD problem either - if you are doing stres

Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?)

2002-11-17 Thread Thomas Seck
* Marc G. Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What's to track? Nothing happens on that branch ... I just CVSup'd > RELEASE, followed by RELENG_4_7 and the only changes were pretty much > related to the latest BIND vulnerabilities ... The "security branches" are fortunately a very slowly moving targe

Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?

2002-11-16 Thread Geoffrey C. Speicher
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

FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?

2002-11-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
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 ... I have two servers sitting at Rackspace right now, both running Tya