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From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com>
To: "'Mike Harding'" <mvh@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: RE: Version Numbering
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:26:55 -0500
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futuristic? uummm... wasn't 2000 last year? can we please kill this
thread now?
-Otter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Harding
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 2:02 PM
> To: tom@uniserve.com
> Cc: ajh3@chmod.ath.cx; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Version Numbering
>
>
>
> Let's call it "FreeBSD 2000" so it sounds futuristic.
>
> Oh... Sorry.  :)
>
> - Mike H.
>
>    Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:28:07 -0800 (PST)
>    From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
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>    On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote:
>
>    > What with all the version inflation going on in the
> Linux world, I have
>    > an idea for FreeBSD.
>    >
>    > Forget 4.3-STABLE. Skip to 4.4. And rather than calling
> it FreeBSD
>    > 4.4-STABLE, call it 4.4FreeBSD. That way, we can show
> off the roots of
>    > FreeBSD and make it sound cool, too!
>
>      This discussion already occured over a year ago.  Use
> the archive.
>
>    > Or, we can stop people from asking, "Why is RedHat in version
7,
>    > Mandrake almost in version 8, and FreeBSD only in 4?"
> (assuming RedHat
>    > users even know what FreeBSD is). Just call the next
> release FreeBSD
>    > 10.3-STABLE or FreeBSD 2001-STABLE.
>
>      Are people seriously fooled by version numbers?  I've
> never seen anyone
>    on this list ask why the version number wasn't bigger.
>
>    > --
>    > Andrew Hesford
>    > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx
>
>
>    Tom
>
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