5.0 newbies: FreeBSD's future [was: Re: Tracking -CURRENT]
Lucky Green
shamrock at cypherpunks.to
Wed Apr 30 17:05:30 PDT 2003
Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 4:00 PM -0700 2003/04/30, Lucky Green wrote:
[...]
> Are you writing this as a member of -core? Is this the
> official
> policy of the FreeBSD project?
I am neither a member of FreeBSD -core nor am I a committer. I have no
official status with the FreeBSD project of any kind. I am merely a user
who happened to notice certain patterns that I suspect may not yet be
universally recognized.
> > Early-adopters are trying 5.0-RELEASE. It tends to soon
> become clear
> > to them that 5.0-RELEASE does not meet their expectations for
> > stability.
>
> Not surprising. But this is not -STABLE, so if they
> want to try
> 5.x, they need to be willing to read and follow the -current mailing
> list, and they should be willing to demonstrate the proper use of the
> appropriate search tools and archives of -current and -cvs, before
> posting to this list with a problem.
It may not be surprising to you that an official release version of
FreeBSD is not stable. Nor may this be surprising to the regular readers
of -current. I can assure you, in case this isn't clear from the
question this list has seen over the last few months, that this fact can
come as a surprise to some users that have utilized 4.x FreeBSD in the
past, but are new to 5.0.
I am simply appealing to folks to please go easy on recent 5.0 users. If
it weren't for the fact that FreeBSD just had a major version release,
those questions would go to -stable, or perhaps even -questions. But
since neither -stable nor -questions presently are lists on which
questions about 5.0 tend to find answers, -current is seeing posts from
those that otherwise would not even consider posting to -current.
--Lucky Green
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