From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 10 9:28:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F741516E for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:28:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 127icE-0001IB-00; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:28:26 -0800 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:28:24 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Allen Pulsifer Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" , jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Subject: RE: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Allen Pulsifer wrote: > I have to agree with this poster. The next release should be > called FreeBSD 5.0. > > "BSD 4.4" is a desciptive term still used to describe a whole > family of OS's. People outside the FreeBSD circle are going to be > confused between BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD 4.4. This can easily be avoided, > at no cost, by calling the next release FreeBSD 5.0. > > Allen Actually, no. The distribution is called 4.4BSD, not BSD 4.4. The same goes for 4.1 or 4.2 which were known as 4.1BSD and 4.2BSD respectively. Anyone who understands what BSD is, will know the difference. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message