Date: Sat, 1 May 99 12:20 +0100 From: Justin Murdock <justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk> To: jim@blues.ghis.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 to be given to attendees of USENIX Technical Conference Message-ID: <199905011120.MAA00169@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Jim Mock's mail of Wed, 28 Apr 99 21:16 %2B1000 References: <68533.925278695@zippy.cdrom.com> <199904281049.LAA25638@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <19990428211600.A57484@blues.ghis.net>
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> 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
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