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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!imp.ch!sunqbc.risq.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.mcgill.ca!ceetah From: dma@mail.aei.ca Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How stable is -CURRENT? Date: 12 Apr 1996 17:53:01 GMT Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4km59t$fk4@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> References: <4jb843$nb8@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4k1hvk$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ceetah.lsa.mcgill.ca X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 Not really related but kind of -- is -current fully BSDI 2.0 compatible? There were a couple of things (Netscape & Excite) that I wanted to run but heard that -stable doesn't do the trick. So the latest SNAP CD is the best thing to get? David In article <4k1hvk$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien) writes: >> In light of the upcoming "developer's" SNAP-RELEASE CD, what is the general >> opinion of those running current? > >For many of us, it seems to be stable enough to do our daily develop- >ment work. I'm even using a much-more-recent-than-2.1R system at >work, since i did the CD-R driver work there. > >Of course, -current is a moving target, there are often periods where >it goes unstable due to some changes, followed by periods of a rather >stable system. Usually, a SNAP won't be published with too many known >stability problems. >