On Sunday 23 March 2003 20:20, Wes Peters wrote: > On Saturday 22 March 2003 15:10, Daniela wrote: > > > I know, but 5.0-RELEASE was > > > > > > a) A work-in-progress, not a perfect, bug-free release > > > > > > b) A snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT > > > > > > You read the 5.0 Early Adopter's Guide, right? Bugs like this are > > > expected at this stage in the development process, and if you > > > encounter them then you need to either give up on 5.x and go back to > > > 4.x-STABLE, or upgrade to 5.0-CURRENT if they are already fixed > > > there. > > > > > > Kris > > > > Yes, I read the Early Adopter's Guide. > > Is there any way to solve this without upgrading to -current? > > I want a stable server, of course, but I still want to help the FreeBSD > > folks to make 5.0 the best release ever. This requires testing to be > > done. > > Yes it does, but not on a "production" machine. We admire your courage > and willingness to help, but it's not helping as much as you think. ;^) > > The reason for creating the 5.0 release is to make it easy for more > developers and testers to jump onto the 5.x bandwagon by giving them a > known (relatively) good starting point. Quite a number of problems have > been fixed since 5.0-RELEASE; CURRENT is now generally much more stable, > and nobody is going to spend time updating 5.0 which is essentially an > "early access" release. > > You have to decide for yourself if this machine is too critical to run > CURRENT, in which case it's probably best off running STABLE or the > latest 4.x release branch, or if you want to update it to CURRENT, follow > the CURRENT mailing list, and update again at known stable development > points. It looks like right now is pretty good if you want to jump. > > At any rate, thanks for your tenacity. We really do appreciate the > contributions of everyone.
Well, it's just a home server. I don't mind a few crashes, but security is important for me. What do you think, should I go back to -stable? FreeBSD is the world's best OS, I want to see it succeeding and I want to help as much as possible. Daniela To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
