From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jan 12 14:31:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20960 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:31:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20933; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id JAA22798; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:01:10 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA28268; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:00:52 +1030 Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:00:52 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the union, 1999. In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: > > FWIW, I agree with the somewhat low-key release of 3.0 - as it turns > > out there probably weren't any show-stopping problems, but it could > > have turned into a real PR disaster for us > > 3.0 had at least two show-stopper bugs which would have made it worse > than useless in a development environment, namely the dying daemons > bug and the inetd signal bug. Add to that the fact that the Elf Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about those. Here's hoping that 3.1 proves to be a success! Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message