Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:27:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> 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.4.21.0005140125390.15953-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000513222058.A5564@dan.emsphone.com>
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again, I also think 4.0 is very stable, but read the archives around the time 4.0 was released. Jordan said that it isn't to be considered "officially" stable until 4.1 ================================================================= | 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, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 13), Kenneth Wayne Culver said: > > 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. > > Actually, 4.0 is without a doubt FreeBSD's most stable point-0 release > ever, and probably (definitely, wrt NFS) more stable than 3.4. I've > been running 4.* on 4 production machines at work and have had only one > crash in the last 6 months between them. > > As for the "sudden" jump to 5.0 for -current, the decision was made when > 3.0 was created to not do any more multiple-point releases (like 2.2.8 > or god forbid 2.1.7.1 :) anymore. When -current gets ready for > release, the major version number gets bumped. Take a look at > /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree, and watch the far-left-hand branch to > see what I mean. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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