On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:27, Marc Olzheim wrote: > 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:
I think the best way to rectify this is to test RC candidates on YOUR hardware.. This finds the bugs you need fixed at a time when people are very receptive to fixing them. It's not realistic for the release engineer to test on a lot of hardware as they are very busy doing other things. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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