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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!main.put.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Stability Vs. Fatality X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 18 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DuM1M5.7C0@news2.new-york.net> References: <DuEC12.L18@news2.new-york.net> <4s7nes$kfv@symiserver2.symantec.com> <4s8d1e$1bi@jraynard.demon.co.uk> X-Trace: 837477291/5512 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:34:53 GMT James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote: : >In <DuEC12.L18@news2.new-york.net>, le@put.com (Louis Epstein) writes: : > : >>will 2.1.5R really have a lower bug content than 2.1R? : : Well, a lot of bug fixes have been made, and not many new features : have been added (deliberately), so by the laws of arithmetic it : certainly should have less bugs... : : The whole idea behind 2.1.5 is to allow users to get fixes for : existing bugs without simultaneously getting lots of new ones :-) As a user of a 3Com 3C509 who has read the KNOWNBUG.TXT file in the 2.1.5-RELEASE FTP directory,I have to wonder about this!<g> I'll look forward to my subscription CD,but any decision to install it will be after hard consideration.