flowtable usable or not

[Bas Smeelen]

On 03/03/2012 10:18 AM, H wrote:
> Bas Smeelen wrote:
>> On 03/02/2012 07:42 PM, H wrote:
>>> Doug Barton wrote:
>>>> ... and here is the crux of the problem. The vast majority of our
>>>> developers don't use FreeBSD as their regular workstation. So it has
>>>> increasingly become an OS where changes are being lobbed over the wall
>>>> by developers who don't run systems that those changes affect. That's
>>>> no way to run a railroad. Doug
>>> wow
>>>
>>> since it is not April 1st it must be revelation's day ...:)
>>>
>>> is this then the bottomline ?
>>>
>>> if [ $using_ports=YES ]; get_screwed($big_time); fi
>>>
>>>
>> Hey people
>>
>> There are still a lot of us which might not be smart enough or lack
>> the resources to help you debug issues but we still use and depend on
>> FreeBSD, and we test, and hopefully give you some debugging hints
>>
>> I have some production servers running on STABLE  and even some on
>> CURRENT to stress our developers, but most run RELEASE and use
>> freebsd-update
>>
>> Keep up the good work, it makes me a more confident sysadmin
>> Ports is the best thing happening to me after going through al the apt
>> and other stuff
> you talk like the wind blows my friend ...
>
> remembering  your own most recent words in another occasion  what
> certainly do not match your last sentence ...

The last sentences:

In short: FreeBSD makes you think about what you are doing beforehand
which makes a great way to upgrade/ update application, database e.g.
on servers whithout running into service downtime. Other OS's don't or
do it less. I like that a lot, it saves a lot of incoming phone calls.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-January/237779.html


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>> / On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Bas Smeelen<b.smeelen at ose.nl<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>>  wrote:
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> />/>  On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:07 -0500
> />/>  David Jackson<djackson452 at gmail.com<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>>  wrote:
> />/>
> />/>  >  I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages
> />/>  >  on Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
> />/>  >
> /...
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> />/>  >  All fail miserably and totally and have left the system in an
> />/>  >  unuseable state.
> />/>
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> />/ I wish to use binary packages and I specifically do not want to
> />/ compile anything, it tends to take far too long to compile programs
> />/ and would rather install some packages and have it all work right
> />/ away. Binary packages are a big time saver and are more efficient. It
> />/ should be easy for FreeBSD to make it easy to install the most recent
> />/ versions of all binary packages, its beyond belief they cannot pull
> />/ off such a simple ans straight forward, and basic part of any OS.  /
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