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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!ivory.lm.com!not-for-mail From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs .... Date: 15 Sep 1995 16:24:28 -0400 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <43cnds$c5p@ivory.lm.com> References: <41epe5$onh@mailnews.kub.nl> <41ncq0$esj@gol1.gol.com> <41q8fl$8nt@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <1995Sep8.084248.28094@state.systems.sa.gov.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivory.lm.com In article <1995Sep8.084248.28094@state.systems.sa.gov.au>, <chdemgt@state.systems.sa.gov.au> wrote: >In article <41q8fl$8nt@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) writes: >There is absolutely no need to do it. Almost all releases are "stable", >and the few that aren't are quickly replaced. This is complete and utter bullshit. If all releases are stable, why is there a new one every 8 hours? I'm sure you won't have -any- problem explaining about the new functionality included in releases 1.1.0 through 1.1.59 (of which "breaking TCP/IP" and "Making the VM system perform worse" are major "features"). >If you get a Linux >"distribution" (e.g. Slackware) it has a stable kernel binary. There is >no need to look further. There is the _possibility_, which doesn't exist >with FreeBSD, of downloading the latest version of the kernel, because it >is available independently of the distributions. The _possibility_ of downloading the latest version of the FreeBSD kernel is there as well. You don't know this because you haven't bothered to find out, because you'd rather just bitch about things than find out the truth. >That it is possible doesn't >mean you have to do it, though. I have had kernel version 1.1.59 on a >machine at work for many months, and 1.3.9 at home for many weeks. Both >are fine, and I have no plans to upgrade either just yet. Yeah, you might be inficting some new "features" on yourself. -- "Actually, you just think that's a telephone. Really, it's the alarm that rings whenever I get out of my chair." -- E.S. Peter Berger. System Administrator, Telerama Public Access Internet http://www.lm.com/~peterb Serving Pittsburgh since 1991.