Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:05:00 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Trond Endrestol <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Message-ID: <20000111040500.A46259@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001111232020.80351-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>; from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:40:33PM %2B0100 References: <200001111107.MAA09106@114046.kema.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001111232020.80351-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:40:33PM +0100, Trond Endrestol wrote: > According to Kirk McKusick's chapter in «Open Sources: Voices from the > Open Source Revolution» 4.1BSD was originally planned to be released > as 5BSD, but there were objections from AT&T. AT&T said that the > customers would be confused if both SysV and 5BSD were available. > (Huh?) Berkeley agreed to keep the major number at 4 and only increase > the minor number. That's why Berkeley released subsequent releases as > 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4BSD. Correct answer! Now that we've had our education contribution from this topic, it is time to let the discussion of the next major release of FreeBSD DIE! -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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