Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:10:40 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <20010316071040.V29888@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103160844480.16706-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:49:41AM -0600 References: <20010315201500.A2484@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103160844480.16706-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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* Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> [010316 06:50] wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:40:29PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > Hmm. I've yet to get *any* mail about BETA scaring people, and we've > > > been doing them for literally years at this point. I suspect you're > > > overreacting somewhat to Saverio Perugini's recent mail in -stable, > > > but I'll nonetheless entertain any suggestions on what I could call > > > the "pre-RC" releases without confusing them with snapshots, which > > > occur every day anyway, or the actual release. > > > > > > > Drop by the newsgroup. There was a thread last week about someone > > using cvsup expecting to get 4.2-stable and he got 4.3-beta. He > > was annoyed and confused because he thought beta meant "beta > > quality" (as in inferior software). > > I've heard that quite often on IRC as well. Sometimes to fix a > problem I tell someone to upgrade to -STABLE, which happens to be > 4.3-BETA at this time. I get the usual "BETA!?!?" response, whereby I > have to explain that FreeBSD's "BETA" is nothing like, say, > Microsoft's "BETA". I don't think its a big problem, just that it > might discourage a few more freebsd-newbie users from using it than it > would if it weren't called "BETA". Ok, so we have reports of confusion on the mailing lists, usenet and IRC. Jordan, where can I pick up a set those blinders you have on? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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