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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:47:08 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Dave Walton <walton@emusic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   New FreeBSD releases (was: Which release is elf based?)
Message-ID:  <19990126164708.U66239@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990126060129.7817.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com>; from Dave Walton on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:01:28PM -0800
References:  <199901260512.AAA03629@rochester.rr.com>; <19990126161019.O66239@freebie.lemis.com> <19990126060129.7817.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com>

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On Monday, 25 January 1999 at 22:01:28 -0800, Dave Walton wrote:
> On 26 Jan 99, at 16:10, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at  0:12:09 -0500, Marty Leisner wrote:
>>> A few weeks ago, I looked at the freebsd pages and didn't find
>>> anything useful about elf...
>>>
>>> Is 3.0-RELEASE elf based?
>>
>> That depends on your terminology.  Let's say:
>>
>> 2.2 supports ELF
>> 3.0 has ELF by default, but an a.out kernel.
>> 4.0 (and 3.1) have everything ELF, and require the new bootstrap in
>>     order to load the kernel.
>
> Whoa...  I must have missed something.  I thought 3.0-CURRENT
> was the latest.  When did 3.1 and 4.0 appear?

Last week 3.0-STABLE was branched, and -CURRENT became 4.0.
3.1-RELEASE will come Real Soon Now.

Greg
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