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From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD
Date: 14 Nov 93 11:02:40
Organization: little lizard city
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In-reply-to: sef@kithrup.com's message of Sun, 14 Nov 1993 17:18:55 GMT

In article <CGHs3y.Au2@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
   Define "stable."  How many major changes are checked in to each try a week?
   How many minor changes?

   A system can be buggy as hell, yet still be stable and desirable for that
   one reason.

i can't answer this; you will have the ask the current users how stable it
is on daily/nightly basis.  you don't have to take our word for it.

at the same time you might want to ask them how stable their shared
library XFree86 2.0 is, too...

(a round of applause to Paul Kranenburg for his sunos-compatible shared
library code!)

 <tdr.