Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:12:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980406181143.246D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199804060627.IAA01733@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Hm... does anyone have a sense of what the lifetime of 2.2.x is? > > > I'm just thinking if it took someone half a year, and 2.2.x would be > > > dead in 9 months (e.g.), then it wouldn't really be that worthwhile. > > > > It's impossible to say for sure, given that such things are driven > > more by user demand than by any deliberate plan, but I suspect that we > > won't see 2.2.x run much longer than November 1998, after which it > > will go very much into legacy support mode. > > "legacy support mode" sounds as "dead" to me... the question is if > next stable release will be 3.0 (i.e. including SMP, as I understand > it) or something called 2.3 Yes, but look at how many 2.1.x and 2.0.x boxen are still out there. [...] - alex "We are upping our standards ... so up yours." - Pat Paulsen for US of A Prez, 1988. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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