On 15 September 2006, at 11:16, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Stable is a misnomer that harms FreeBSD somewhat. A promoter of
FreeBSD I know has long encouraged people to upgrade from release
to stable. Some don't & won't realise Stable is Not necessarily
Stable, & may get burnt. Much of the world speaks English only as
a 2nd language. They won't benefit from the double trouble of
foreign + weird BSD geek speak: "Stable isn't Stable ? Yes or No !"
"It's stable, but it's OK to crash ? - I'll go Linux !"
Imagine a boat labelled Stable: It sinks. The designers claim:
"Tough! We left the Application Interface (routes to bars & toilets)
stable, but changed other stuff. Hey ! Stable never meant Stable !
This is the perfect explanation. Thank you for putting what I am
trying to say in words so well. :-)
It'd be some work to eradicate the misnomer, but the name's perhaps
less entrenched than one might guess, eg:
ftp ftp.freebsd.org
cd /pub/FreeBSD
dir
lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftpuser ftpusers 19 Mar 24 14:58 FreeBSD-
stable -> branches/4.0-stable
cd FreeBSD-stable
550 No such directory.
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one guy and one girl
<svinx> and so they look at each other like.. do we have to?
<svinx> intel & nvidia must be lookin at each other like that right now
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