From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 1 4:20:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from coventry.ac.uk (mercury.coventry.ac.uk [193.61.107.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106831500E for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 04:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk) Received: from mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk (mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk [194.66.38.77]) by coventry.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA14931; Sat, 1 May 1999 12:20:31 +0100 (BST) Received: (from justin@localhost) by mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA00169; Sat, 1 May 1999 12:20:26 +0100 Message-Id: <199905011120.MAA00169@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 1 May 99 12:20 +0100 From: Justin Murdock Reply-To: justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 to be given to attendees of USENIX Technical Conference To: jim@blues.ghis.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Jim Mock's mail of Wed, 28 Apr 99 21:16 +1000 References: <68533.925278695@zippy.cdrom.com> <199904281049.LAA25638@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <19990428211600.A57484@blues.ghis.net> X-Mailer: Af v1.98.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 at 11:49:00 +0100, Justin Murdock wrote: > > I don't want 2 releases a year, I want 1 release every time FreeBSD > > is ready for a new release. Or does FreeBSD require 2 releases a > > year to keep Walnut Creek happy? > Go take a look at the releases page.. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ > There are new releases 3 or 4 times a year. Sorry, I was rememebring the old Walnut Creek subscription information, which suggested twice a year. It currently claims about 3 times a year. > > Will this install and work out of the box. (unlike 3.1)? > I've got 3.1 running on a few different machines.. out of the box. As > far as I know, there haven't been very many instances of 3.1 not > working out of the box or all hell would've been raised on the lists. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.1R/errata.html 2 & 3 are `real' problems. Did anyone test this release before it was printed? also fbsdboot.exe doesn't. > As I said, go take a look at the previous releases.. 4 in 1998, 5 in > 1997.. we've had one so far this year, and June would be the time for > the next following the past release schedule. > > I don't want to take another credibility hit - have the high (as I > > perceived them) production values of 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 been ditched in > > an attempt to be as sexy as Linux? > Nothing to do with being as sexy as Linux. No? not encouraging people to get their hands dirty? - whilst I take this to have been apologetic humour: "This will cause the kernel change information to be read in and used properly (and you just learned a little about the new 3-stage loader in the process, so the exercise wasn't a total loss). " but I'm not quite comfortable with the sentiment behind it. I'd rather not notice FreeBSD :) The nice thing about free software is that you have the source if you need to fix it. What I like about FreeBSD was that you never need to. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message