[OmniOS-discuss] stable vs "bloody"

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Tue Oct 9 20:28:34 EDT 2012


On 10/9/2012 7:22 AM, Eric Sproul wrote:

> That said, "bloody" is more than just "fresher illumos-gate".  It's
> also newer versions of the other bits we add to make the complete OS,
> including gcc, OpenSSL, zlib, libxml2, and many others.  Those may not
> work correctly together or have bad bugs, but the goal is to let folks
> try out the bleeding edge and ferret those out in the ~6 months
> between stable releases.

Cool, thanks for the explanation. With that clarification, it's probably 
better to go with stable for production use.



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