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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 34 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E667J9.7q1@nonexistent.com> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <32FF86B6.2781E494@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com> X-Trace: 856893859/5936 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:04:20 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36105 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: : : > Will the bugfix curve for 2.2.x be any quicker? : : Who knows? :-) : : Anyway, i think 2.2 looks quite good already. You can't compare it : e.g. to the quality 2.0R once had (for various and known reasons). Well,the past Announcements/Release Notes make interesting reading! 2.0Alpha:"very pleased to announce...release of 2.0 Alpha...a host of new features,filesystetms,and enhanced driver support....We hope you enjoy it!" 2.0Release:"RELEASE is now far less dangerous [we hope :-)] than ALPHA was!" 2.0.5 Alpha:"a significant improvement over FreeBSD 2.0R...while not up to the `full release quality' we hope to have for 2.1R,it's certainly more stable and nicer to use than 2.0R!" 2.0.5 Release:(June 10):"the final release in the 2.0.5 series...a stable and much easier-to-install alternative to 2.0R." (June 12) "As a result of the feedback we have had about the original 2.0.5-RELEASE,we have gone poking and found a couple of bugs..." and so on...never forgetting the note in 2.1.5 GAMMA about how the previous SNAP had to be pulled..."a few decidedly fatal kernel bugs were found".2.1.5,2.1.6,2.1.6.1,and now 2.1.7 have each been introduced as the final stable bugfix version of their branch! I do hope lessons learned make 2.2.x smoother.