RE: Current in Production
Howdy, I would have lucked out if it wasn't reliable :-) If you do all the right things, such as follow the commit logs and test, test, test, you can get a snapshot of current that will prove reliable for a certain number of tasks. It had three months of testing before going into production, so I didn't get any rude shocks, nor was I risking my job. Everyone was aware of the potential for instability and the fallback was to run the apps on a 4.x release or stable. I needed proof by example that FreeBSD development code was just as capable - if not more - as commercial OS releases. I have that well and truly now :-) I liked riding the edge of insanity years ago. I've fallen over the edge since then :-) Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator AIMS Independent Computer Professionals Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 Web: http://www.aims.com.au > -Original Message- > From: Jim Bryant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2002 14:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Current in Production > > > Do you own a Harley? Do the Mosh Pit? You definitely like > riding the edge of insanity... > > -current is always in a state of flux... I say you lucked out... > > FreeBSD is killer stuff, but, I personally wouldn't risk a > job on the odds of getting a stable -current when I needed one... > > Chris Knight wrote: > [snip] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Current in Production
Do you own a Harley? Do the Mosh Pit? You definitely like riding the edge of insanity... -current is always in a state of flux... I say you lucked out... FreeBSD is killer stuff, but, I personally wouldn't risk a job on the odds of getting a stable -current when I needed one... Chris Knight wrote: > Howdy, > > I'd just like to thank the FreeBSD team for an outstanding job. > I've got a FreeBSD-current system in production running an Intranet that has > just exceeded one year's uptime. Admittedly, the snapshot I built was > 30/10/2000, but it does go to show that current can indeed be used for > production systems. The system only ever had one reboot and that was when > the installation was migrated to a new box. > For those that are interested, the Intranet uses Apache, PHP, Firebird and > OpenLDAP for various Web-based management applications/tasks. > Again, thanks to everyone responsible for providing a reliable and > dependable distribution, even when it's considered unstable and for > development purposes only. > > Regards, > Chris Knight > Systems Administrator > AIMS Independent Computer Professionals > Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 > Web: http://www.aims.com.au jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! - POWER TO THE PEOPLE! - "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Current in Production
Howdy, I'd just like to thank the FreeBSD team for an outstanding job. I've got a FreeBSD-current system in production running an Intranet that has just exceeded one year's uptime. Admittedly, the snapshot I built was 30/10/2000, but it does go to show that current can indeed be used for production systems. The system only ever had one reboot and that was when the installation was migrated to a new box. For those that are interested, the Intranet uses Apache, PHP, Firebird and OpenLDAP for various Web-based management applications/tasks. Again, thanks to everyone responsible for providing a reliable and dependable distribution, even when it's considered unstable and for development purposes only. Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator AIMS Independent Computer Professionals Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 Web: http://www.aims.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
