From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 14 11:28:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEB3437B7EB for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:28:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 20453 invoked by uid 1825); 14 Mar 2000 19:28:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Mar 2000 19:28:09 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:28:09 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: "Sumbry][" Cc: Mitch Vincent , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jordon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Sumbry][ wrote: > > I saw on slashdot the other day where the FreeBSD 4 release was suppose to > > happen "Very soon" -- with other comments liike " > > FreeBSD 4 should go gold on March 13th", I see now that it hasn't happened > > but wondered if perhaps that has been a date set? > > > > I've got a nice box waiting for the 4.0, we're going to have to install RC3 > > if the stable 4.0 isn't released soon.. > > From my understanding it's already happened, cept that it's a RELEASE > version, and not stable. Then why does the website still advertise 3.4 with virtually no mention of 4.0 on the Walnut Creek home page? I just placed an order for 4.0; but it's on backorder with no ETA. > I've always run STABLE on my production servers, but what are the > drawbacks to running a RELEASE? AFAIK, RELEASE is just a snapshot of STABLE. IOW, STABLE is the most up-to-date version of the release, and hence isn't available on CDROM. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message