Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Preview's main purpose is to support those users who want a fairly > recent HEAD, but do not want to deal with, for example, the EHCI work > that caused my test box to stop booting for a few days :-).
So I can quote you in the documentation on this? ;) I realize that this implies policy, so you dont have to answer immediately. If I do change the documentation like I have offered, I'd like to put something there that accurately reflects the project leader's intention. > This theoretically frees us up to commit things to HEAD slightly less > carefully, but the reality is that we are no less careful then, say, > the FreeBSD folks are when they commit something to their HEAD. So > anyone who felt comfortable staying up with HEAD in FreeBSDland > should feel the same comfort level staying up with HEAD in > DragonFlyland. Welp, twice before I've bee married to "ultra-stable" operating systems. Once was SunOS 4.1.X and the other was FreeBSD 4.X (coincidental version numbers?). This is fine until you get to a point where your distribution doesn't run on new hardware, a point where you can't run what you know works and have to move to new software just because the hardware has obsoleted you. (Next stop, the twilight zone.) So...I'm trying something different here (out of necessity). I'm going to run the most stable bleeding edge code I can, regardless of how oxymoronic that is, and see how that works. I'm thinking the aggregate time spent upgrading every month is less than the large chunks of frustration time I have on the borders of rock solidity. Your Preview release provides me that opportunity. Thank you. :) ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "It is a dragon, destroyer of all," cried the ants. Then a cat caught the lizard.
