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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD Date: 14 Nov 93 11:02:40 Organization: little lizard city Lines: 17 Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Nov14110240@pain.agate> References: <JKH.93Nov13222001.2@whisker.lotus.ie> <crt.753292942@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <CGD.93Nov14085627@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <CGHs3y.Au2@kithrup.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pain.cs.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: sef@kithrup.com's message of Sun, 14 Nov 1993 17:18:55 GMT In article <CGHs3y.Au2@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: Define "stable." How many major changes are checked in to each try a week? How many minor changes? A system can be buggy as hell, yet still be stable and desirable for that one reason. i can't answer this; you will have the ask the current users how stable it is on daily/nightly basis. you don't have to take our word for it. at the same time you might want to ask them how stable their shared library XFree86 2.0 is, too... (a round of applause to Paul Kranenburg for his sunos-compatible shared library code!) <tdr.