From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 12:11:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9332314C9E for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:11:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01389; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:08:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:08:20 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd release numbers Message-ID: <19991230120820.B25831@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:14:41PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:14:41PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > why did the numbering system change from 3 parts to 2? I.E. from 2.x.y to > 3.x? The change was announced in Jordan's "State of the Union, 1999" post to -announce under the heading "Release Numbering". You can find this message at the huge URL listed below: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2157+0+archive/1999/freebsd-announce/19990101.freebsd-announce -- Brooks -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message