Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:54:14 +0100 From: Kai Voigt <k@123.org> To: Trond Endrestol <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> Cc: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@nic.nl>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Message-ID: <20000111125414.Y27079@abc.123.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001111232020.80351-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> References: <200001111107.MAA09106@114046.kema.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001111232020.80351-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
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Trond Endrestol wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
>
> According to Kirk McKusick's chapter in «Open Sources: Voices from the
> Open Source Revolution» 4.1BSD was originally planned to be released
> as 5BSD, but there were objections from AT&T. AT&T said that the
> customers would be confused if both SysV and 5BSD were available.
> (Huh?) Berkeley agreed to keep the major number at 4 and only increase
> the minor number. That's why Berkeley released subsequent releases as
> 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4BSD.
Oh, then it should be FreeBSD 6.0, so we won't conflict with SysV :-)
Or we switch to letters instead of numbers, or name it after the
current president of some carribean country?
SCNR,
Kai
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