From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 6 13:15:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74D614D94; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA44066; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:14:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <200001062114.NAA44066@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Darren Reed Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jan 0100 08:00:46 +1100." <200001062100.IAA04692@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:14:56 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In some email I received from Matthew Dillon, sie wrote: > [...] > > We are not going to repeat the 3.0 mess. IPV6 and IPSEC are important, > > but not important enough to delay the already-delayed 4.0 release. 4.1 > > is not too late for these babies. > [...] > > Well, let me put it this way. > > 4.0-RELEASE sounds like it will start becoming available at about the same > time as other OS's make new releases *with* IPv6/IPSec. You work it out > whether or not FreeBSD will win or lose from those two being there or not > there. For the short term the impact will be nill , zero , nada... Is not like companies get hold of a new technology and instantly start deploying it -- it will take some time ;specially, nowdays after a lot of companies are getting somewhat of a relief from Y2K work or scare .... With respect to FreeBSD people can always get an upgrade or cvsup . They want more ? Talk to JKH I am sure is willing to strike a sweet deal 8) -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message