From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 9:18:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4BA37B407 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15hZCD-000GYh-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:18:33 +0000 Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 62D01B673; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:56:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:56:12 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is 4.4 ? Message-ID: <20010913175612.C3586@raggedclown.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010913120032.28072.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <20010913120032.28072.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:00:32PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:00:32PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > > > Mark - I'm right beside you on your soapbox!!! I am similarly amazed at how > > impatient some people are with the FreeBSD project. Consider M$ in > > comparison - they are almost ALWAYS late for their promised deadlines - > > still deliver a $#!Tload of bugs in the late code, never apologise, and > > still charge you a fortune for the privilege. I'll WAIT a few days for > > FreeBSD anytime! > As far as I am concerned I am *glad* that new versions are delayed until those working on it are themselves happy with it. That is the professional approach that marks FBSD out from commercial "get-it-out-the-door" now whatever attitude. Having said that a small note on the FBSD home page may have forestalled all the emails here about the September 8th date being missed. keep on rocking ! -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message