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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!MathWorks.Com!panix!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Stable *BSD for Intel Message-ID: <hastyCM9CHI.Lsy@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2l71jpEr19@uni-erlangen.de> <hastyCM5Jqn.513@netcom.com> <2lcs8t$ffq@fw.novatel.ca> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 19:22:30 GMT Lines: 49 In article <2lcs8t$ffq@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl) writes: >Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote: >: Perhaps the above is due to cabling problems with the AHA-1542C;nevertheless, >: I suggest that one of the NetBSD-0.9 advocates take a snapshot of a stable >: netbsd-current and release it. Given that the release date of >: NetBSD-1.0 is unknown. > >Ummm... This has been happening for a while now: > >sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:pub/NetBSD/arch/i386 > >[sun-lamp i386 72 ]> ls >CKSUMS netbsd-ahbbt* usr.libexec.tar.gz >README sbin.tar.gz usr.misc.tar.gz >bin.tar.gz usr.bin.tar.gz usr.sbin.tar.gz >dev.tar.gz usr.games.tar.gz usr.share.tar.gz >etc.tar.gz usr.include.tar.gz var.tar.gz >netbsd-aha* usr.lib.tar.gz > >Here's an excerpt from the README: > >This is a binary snapshot, created from the NetBSD-current sources >as of evening, 3/4/94. They should be used in the same was as all >-current sources: VERY CAREFULLY, and only by those who know what >they're doing. > Sounds good, however, hardly my definition of a *stable* release of netbsd-current. Now, is there a top-level Readme file pointing to it --- the reason why I am saying this is because I have seen a few postings about kernel crashes with netbsd-0.9 when I know that netbsd-current is not that bad. People innocently just pick up netbsd-0.9 thinking that is the more stable netbsd --- which can be true pending on the weeks netbsd-current build. I was quoted that the netbsd-current release is mostly for developers;due to the high overhead of keeping up with netbsd-current -- shortly there after I installed FreeBSD. Ideally, netbsd-0.9 should be deleted and replaced by netbsd-0.9xxx. So once again, if one of the netbsd advocates can make available a known *stable* snapshot. -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X