Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 06:56:18 -0500 From: Asymmetric <all@biosys.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010322065602.00c645f8@216.200.176.7>
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At 03:21 3/22/2001 -0800, you wrote: > > -- > > Reading my message, I *like* that explanation (other > > than the -CURRENT > > paragraph), anybody else? > > Scott Lambert > > lambert@os2warp.org > >I Like it...the -current bit aside...maybe -current >could be analogous to a 'leaked' copy of windows2001 >(or whatever?) At the risk of being flamed for knowing too much about MS stuff.. MSDN subscribers get what amounts to -CURRENT if they want to take the time to download it and burn a CD. This would be the various Betas that would be put up at various milestones during the development of whatever particular project. After the betas are done, they move on to the RC stage, just like most projects do. I wouldn't consider freebsd betas to be analogous to ms betas.. freebsd betas are generally a pre-RC phenomenon that is saying something like "check this for bugs.. if you find any, let us know," and RC's are "We're pretty sure we've got all the bugs now, so just get back to us on showstoppers." MS betas are on the other hand no where near the quality of a FreeBSD beta.. for example, MS Whistler (Windows XP, whatever they decide to call it) Beta 1 was nothing more than a tweaked WinME gui slapped on top of Win2k.. and nothing like what (they claim) the release is going to be like except for the basic idea and feel. There is no one to one correlation between ms releases and freebsd releases because freebsd has three pre-release stages, whereas ms products only have two. ms RC's generally encompass the same ideas as freebsd beta's and rc's, rolled into a single stage. -------signature file------- PGP Key Fingerprint: 446B 7718 B219 9F1E 43DD 8E4A 6BE9 D739 CCC5 7FD7 "I don't think [Linux] will be very successful in the long run." "My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse." -Ken Thompson, Interview May 1999. http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD - The Power to Serve http://www.rfnj.org Radio Free New Jersey - 493 streams - 40kbps @ 22khz Stereo http://namespace.org -- http://name.space Resist the ICANN! Support name.space! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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