Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:23:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> Cc: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>, Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005140122190.15953-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000513195914.B11952@earthlink.net>
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I'm not spreading a rumor, Jordan did say that the 4.x won't be "officially" stable until 4.1. It is in the mailing lists. I will concur however that 4.0 is surprisingly stable for a x.0 release. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eric Ogren wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:35:34PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > Alright, this is how it works. 3.x-STABLE is STILL the only TRUELY Stable > > tree. the x.0 releases are meant to be releases which iron some stuff out, > > and when the x.1 release comes out, that is when the tree becomes -STABLE. > > > > PLEASE stop spreading this rumour about 4.0 not being ready for true > use. As has been said by both committers and non-committers, 4.0-RELEASE > is nothing at all like 3.0-RELEASE, and it is ready for use. > > Also, if you read cvs-all, you would notice that the majority of changes > get MFC'd ONLY to 4-STABLE; although there are certainly still commits to > RELENG_3, it's not the "actively developed" -STABLE branch anymore. > > > > > -Stable progresses along with bugfixes and minor added features from > > -CURRENT, and every so often a -RELEASE is taken as a snapshot from > > -STABLE and given a new version number. -Current takes on the next major > > revision number, but usually doesn't come out for a year to a year and a > > half. > > > > Nod. Just because there is a 5.0-CURRENT doesn't mean that there isn't > going to be at least a 4.1-RELEASE and a 4.2-RELEASE. > > Eric > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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