[OmniOS-discuss] stable vs "bloody"

[Paul B. Henson]

I was curious, for those of you looking to run OmniOS in production, are 
you planning to use the "stable" release or the "bloody" release?

Terminology wise, "stable" sounds better than "bloody" ;), but if you 
turn that around and call them "stale" and "fresh" it gives a different 
connotation :). It looks like stable includes upstream illumos-gate from 
about 5 months ago, whereas bloody is at the moment fully up-to-date 
with the current upstream. Generally, illumos-gate is intended to be 
production quality at all times, so arguably you're more stable tracking 
it more closely. There's only been a couple of times in the past year or 
so a commit broke anything of note, and I think both of those times it 
was caught pretty quick and backed out or resolved.