From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 7 15:33:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6B8158E1 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:33:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA06549; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:33:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200001072333.AAA06549@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: 4.4 BSD forever? In-Reply-To: <18594.947284711@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 7, 2000 02:38:31 pm" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:33:54 +0100 (CET) Cc: John Estess , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is FreeBSD ever going to get past 4.4? In a nostalgic way, it would be > > Yes, FreeBSD is going to get past 4.4. As much as I admire your idea > for its style, I think our release names are going to be selected more > on their mathematic than their asthetic values. :-) especially because unlike latex and tex, we don't have any important irrational number like e or pi starting with 4 which would give us an infinite supply of digits... cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message