Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Stable is a misnomer that harms FreeBSD somewhat.
I agree. > 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 ! > > 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. Why not rename 'stable' into 'stable-api' ? -- Hans Lambermont _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
