From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 3:55: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from abc.123.org (123.org [195.244.241.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B6D1547A; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 03:54:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from k@abc.123.org) Received: (from k@localhost) by abc.123.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA37141; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:54:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from k) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:54:14 +0100 From: Kai Voigt To: Trond Endrestol Cc: Jaap Akkerhuis , obrien@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> References: <200001111107.MAA09106@114046.kema.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: 123.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- kai voigt hamburger chaussee 36 24113 kiel 04 31 - 22 19 98 69 http://k.123.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message