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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!news.BSDI.COM!finkels From: finkels@mythago.bsdi.com (Jeffrey Finkelstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: 3.0 : did they test it ? Date: 18 Mar 1997 15:09:21 GMT Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <slrn5itc11.35h.finkels@mythago.bsdi.com> References: <5glkfk$1sk$1@news3.isdnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: finkels-eastgate-gw.bsdi.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.0-2 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6379 In article <5glkfk$1sk$1@news3.isdnet.net>, Mathieu Guillaume wrote: > > Hello BSDI, do you test your products before you release them ? > > Just some things among others: > - French keyboard doesn't have u, i, o or space keys. Didn't you know we > used them too ? The French keyboard was contributed by a user from France. Do you have fixes we can distribute? > - kill only accepts numbers for the signal. kill -HUP doesn't work for > instance. We have no reports of this problem. Can you give examples? > - On some machines (god only knows why we don't see this on all of them), > the kernel fails to compile because of a misplaced file. The problem is related doing an upgrade on a 2.1 system and not cleaning out the source tree. It is simply fixed by moving the /usr/src/sys tree to /usr/src/sys.old then reinstalling the kernel objects. > > Next time, do make some tests... 3.0 was tested by many of our customers with very few significant problems reported. The problems that were reported were fixed prior to the release. - jeff -- Jeff Finkelstein (finkels@bsdi.com)