# [OmniOS-discuss] stable vs "bloody"

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

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    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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