On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:28 PM, <and...@msu.edu> wrote: > If you don't have a good understanding of things, I'd say you should
By good understanding do you mean ability to read and write system code, and intimate familiarity with *nix internals? ... > not follow -current on machines that are critical to you. I do use -current ... It seems the opinion on running current in production ranges from being overly optimistic to being very cautious. If running -current in production is only recommended for people who are intimately familiar with the internals, doesn't that exclude many if not most users? ... > You can learn tons from watching -current. I have. But till you have > experience with it, don't make it your main system. So more suitable for learning and playing with the latest stuff, but less suitable for running production stuff at this point? I just feel like someone is going to yell "curmudgeon" again. Thanks.
