From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 5:16:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53A337BD91 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 05:16:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12qxIA-0004iZ-00; Sun, 14 May 2000 14:14:42 +0200 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:14:42 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: Dan Nelson , Omachonu Ogali , Brennan W Stehling , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514141442.A18036@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000513222058.A5564@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from culverk@wam.umd.edu on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 01:27:06AM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun 2000-05-14 (01:27), Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > 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 And changed his mind when he noticed what the code freeze had led towards. There are copious indications on the mailing lists referring to his retraction of any statements about inherent instability in dot-zero releases. He also said that we'd never have a release like 3.0 again (amen to that!). 4.0 is considered the better choice. I wouldn't advise anyone to use 3.4 over it, certainly. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Advocate In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message