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#! rnews 2644 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: 2.1.6 versus 2.2 Message-ID: <1997Jan8.175840.28795@wavehh.hanse.de> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Organization: '(a (cons structive organization)) References: <01bbfd80$e983f0c0$6330fa9e@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 17:58:40 GMT Lines: 39 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33671 "Eugene Radchenko" <genie@org.chem.msu.su> writes: >Hi! >Who are the intended users of RELEASE edition? I, personally, >have been quite happy with 2.1R (nothing like dozens of users, though). >Will 2.2R be as stable or I should wait for 2.2-stable? I assume if people >run SNAPs on production systems then RELEASE should be OK? First of all, there's a misunderstanding. -stable is what FreeBSD called the 2.1.x development tree. No other tree - stable or not - takes this name. Regarding your question, what is "stable" for you. Do you really mean uptime or do you mean general bug-freeness? If you're referring to bugs, most people suspect that 2.1.6.1 has fewer bugs than 2.2 will have and that other 2.2.x release will gain the matureness of 2.1.6.1. If you refer to uptimes, I can't tell you. It's a long time since I last paniced a FreeBSD machine (except hardware problems). I might suspect that 2.2 might in some regards, especially heavy VM load, be in fact be more stable, but that's pure speculation. Personally, I already run 2.2-Alpha and 2.2-Beta. I find them to be more "polished" for my needs, many changes since 2.1.x work in directions that are more intuitive for me. If there are bugs in these new/changed functionality, they are not bad enough to show up here. And yes, I can claim to use these systems in production use, I suspect few people burn more CPU cycles on FreeBSD (they may burn more network packets, no change to compete from Germany :-). Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin_Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://cracauer.cons.org Fax.: +4940 5228536 "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway"- Calvin