Re: Userbase of -current

2001-08-22 Thread Vincent Poy
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:27:21AM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: Or, simply unplug the harddrive from your laptop and plug it into another machine to do the install. When I fubar'ed my laptop's fs not too long ago, I hot-plugged my laptop

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-08-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:27:21AM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: Or, simply unplug the harddrive from your laptop and plug it into another machine to do the install. When I fubar'ed my laptop's fs not too long ago, I hot-plugged my laptop harddrive into my desktop, issued an atacontrol

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-08-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 05:56:19PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: Speaking about -current and laptops, I know Warner mentioned the 3COM 3CXFEM656C working in -current but what's the proper way to install FreeBSD on a IBM ThinkPad 770Z with that NIC/Modem combo since the floppy disks don't

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-08-19 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 05:56:19PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: Speaking about -current and laptops, I know Warner mentioned the 3COM 3CXFEM656C working in -current but what's the proper way to install FreeBSD on a IBM ThinkPad 770Z with that

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-08-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
From: Tom Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Userbase of -current Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 07:19:25PM +0200 Add a data point for me using -current on my laptop in order to take advantage of cardbus support (thanks Warner!). We really should have those Slashdot people run a poll or sth

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-08-18 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: From: Tom Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Userbase of -current Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 07:19:25PM +0200 Add a data point for me using -current on my laptop in order to take advantage of cardbus support (thanks Warner!). We really

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-08-04 Thread GH
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:30:42AM -0500, some SMTP stream spewed forth: On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:34:41PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Garance A Drosihn remarked At 11:18 PM -0700 7/17/01, Peter Wemm wrote: If I had to guess, I'd put the total [genuine] -current userbase at

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-07-23 Thread Tom Fischer
Add a data point for me using -current on my laptop in order to take advantage of cardbus support (thanks Warner!). I update about once every two months, and so far my systems has been running flawlessly. All our other FreeBSD systems (~60) are running various incarnations of -stable...

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-07-22 Thread Brian Somers
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vincent Poy writes: : Somehow I always thought there were more than 50 people who are : really running current. We do stress test it though and it had : performed flawlessly over the past 8 years. Question though, does anyone : happen to know what the

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-07-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vincent Poy writes: : Somehow I always thought there were more than 50 people who are : really running current. We do stress test it though and it had : performed flawlessly over the past 8 years. Question though, does anyone : happen to know what the largest

Re: Userbase of -current

2001-07-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:18 PM -0700 7/17/01, Peter Wemm wrote: If I had to guess, I'd put the total [genuine] -current userbase at between 20 and 50 people. And many of those intentionally lag by a few weeks to a month or two. At the kernel-confab at usenix, I heard some people talking about how current wasn't