On Feb 21, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk_at_gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel_at_digsys.bg> wrote: > >> >> >> On 21.02.13 15:04, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: >> >>> Dear All , >>> >>> During development of FreeBSD , testing is very vital . >>> >>> To my knowledge ( which may not be correct ) , at present , >>> Tinderbox is used to only compilation correctness , >>> means "Syntax" is tested . >>> >>> I have downloaded >>> >>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/**FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/** >>> ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-**CURRENT-amd64-20130216-** >>> r246877-release.iso<ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-amd64-20130216-r246877-release.iso> >>> >>> >>> and tried to install it on an Intel DG965WH main board . >>> >>> During the first booting , it generated a panic message and entered into >>> debug mode . >>> >>> For me it has crashed , because I do not know what to do in debug mode . >>> >>> >>> >>> On this main board , it is possible to completely install and successfully >>> run >>> >>> Windows 7 , >>> Fedora 15 , 17 , 18 , >>> Mageia >>> OpenSuSE >>> >> >> I stopped right here. None of the software you compare FreeBSD-current to >> is an development build. On the other hand, you downloaded an cutting-edge >> development build of FreeBSD (not released software) and expected it to be >> stable. It is not. This is why it is not released. It might not always >> break, but it might also damage your data and (possibly) hardware too. >> Unless you agree to accept these risks, you should not play with >> development versions of software. >> >> Having said that, the DG965WH is quite old hardware and any stable version >> of FreeBSD should work just fine there. You are unlikely to see any benefit >> of the unreleased versions that are still in development, such as >> supporting "very new" hardware etc. >> >> Sorry if any of this sounds too hard, but it is reflecting reality. This >> mailing list, freebsd-current exists to facilitate discussion between >> those, who know they are running highly unstable, still in development >> version of FreeBSD that needs lots of work to become more stable. >> >> Daniel >> > > > I will not support your views . My main idea is to describe how we can help > to improve FreeBSD testing . > > The problem is " A snapshot intended for testing , is NOT able to boot." . > > If you ask , do I know what I am doing : My answer is I am working in > computing since 1970 . > And in all that time you've never heard of nightly builds being broken ?Received on Thu Feb 21 2013 - 14:21:23 UTC
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