Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 19:48:42 -0500 From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" <daleco@daleco.biz> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, "Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com>, "Josh Paetzel" <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <00f901c27252$48766a80$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <E180Oyi-0007k5-00@granger.mail.mindspring.net> <20021012164929.GB36537@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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So, will I be still on the 4.x branch with a RELENG_4 tag in my supfiles? (I'm assuming so, from my understanding, which might have come from actually reading the Handbook :-) Sorry for dumb ??, but this will be the first "big number rollover" for me.... TIA, Kevin Kinsey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:49 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:25:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > At http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html > > I find the flollowing: > > > > "The next scheduled release on the -stable branch will be FreeBSD 4.8 on > > February 1, 2003. Subsequent releases will follow at 4 month intervals. The > > first release on what is now the -current branch will be FreeBSD 5.0, > > scheduled for November 20, 2002." > > > > Why is version 5.0 being released before 4.8? > > Because there's a lot of radically new stuff in 5.0, and it needs time > to stabilize properly in general use before any right thinking person > would use it on a machine critical to their business. In the mean > time, 4-STABLE and the -RELEASE branches split from it will still need > to be maintained. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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