Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:21:56 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com> To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th Message-ID: <200001071821.KAA97702@white.dogwood.com> In-Reply-To: <200001071252.XAA05648@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> from Darren Reed at "Jan 7, 2000 11:52:34 pm"
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You know, the people reading this list are *not* the typical FreeBSD users. The fact that releases occur at all is a concession to the realities of the world - WCCDROM needs to pay it's bills by selling CDROMs, and their business pressures require new updates on time and to be as stable as possible (to minimize tech support). You have no idea how expensive it was for them to slip the date a month as it already has to include the features that will go into 4.0. Additionally, despite what you think, I'd bet 99+% of the FreeBSD users in the world could give a rats *ss about IPv6. I run many FreeBSD systems and not one of the ISPs I deal with has announced any plans to move to IPv6 yet. I don't see much, if any, market pressure to move yet, and I suspect that v4 will be perfectly adequate to the needs of a vast majority of FreeBSD users for at least the next year, if not longer. If you want v6, run current, don't make the people waiting for 4.0 wait longer. This is much more likely to cause lost users than no v6. -- Dave Cornejo - Dogwood Media, Fremont, California General Magician & Registered Be Developer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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