From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 11 6:24:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw-line-113.fwi.com [209.84.172.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5D114CB9 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 06:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA12766; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 07:39:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle) To: Steve Hovey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 10 Jul 1999 07:39:48 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: Steve Hovey's message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 08:17:22 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: <861zeghe5n.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Hovey writes: > out of curiousity, whats new about 4 that caused the jump in numbering > from 3.X? Initially, nothing. Now, quite a bit. Once the development tree was fairly stable 3 was branched off from it. 3.x releases are mainly bug fixes and drop in updates, the basic feature set is frozen. The development branch, with its number bumped to 4, started getting all of the new and experimental stuff that people had been holding back on during the run-up to the branching. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message