snapshot stability

[Jonathon McKitrick]

Some time ago, Greg wrote:
"USers looking for stability should be damn careful which version of the
-current snapshot they run."

As of right now, which would that be?  The august CD snapshot release or
the one available on the cvs servers right now?

-= jm =-





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Re: snapshot stability

[Sheldon Hearn]

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:31:38 GMT, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

 As of right now, which would that be?  The august CD snapshot release or
 the one available on the cvs servers right now?

If I were you, I'd hold out for 4.0-RELEASE, since it's just around the
corner (January some time).  Otherwise, just inhale and prepare to
bleed. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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Re: snapshot stability

[Jonathon McKitrick]

I read that the VM system has been revamped and egcs is the default
compiler.  Will either of these affect the average user besides larger
binaries?

Also, i'm wondering if maybe i should just wait until the 4.1 release for
everything to settle down...

-= jm =-





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Re: snapshot stability

[Donn Miller]

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

 I read that the VM system has been revamped and egcs is the default
 compiler.  Will either of these affect the average user besides larger
 binaries?

Actually, egcs WAS the default compiler.  It is now (output of gcc -v):

$ gcc -v
Using builtin specs.
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

- Donn



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Re: snapshot stability

[Warner Losh]

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sheldon Hearn writes:
: If I were you, I'd hold out for 4.0-RELEASE, since it's just around the
: corner (January some time).  Otherwise, just inhale and prepare to
: bleed. :-)

I think that the January some time date may be optimistic given that
we're not in feature freeze yet.

Warner


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Re: snapshot stability

[Matthew Jacob]

 
 On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:31:38 GMT, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
 
  As of right now, which would that be?  The august CD snapshot release or
  the one available on the cvs servers right now?
 
 If I were you, I'd hold out for 4.0-RELEASE, since it's just around the
 corner (January some time).  Otherwise, just inhale and prepare to
 bleed. :-)
 

Despite the risk of bleeding, I have to say that I've installed several
snaps (from the freebsd snapshot server) with excellent results. Now that
spasm over the block device removal has gone away, things have been pretty
darn stable for me.




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