From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 10 20:57:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FA0152CC for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:57:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA98760 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:57:10 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Message-ID: <20000110205710.D98651@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 09:28:24AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > Actually, no. The distribution is called 4.4BSD, not BSD 4.4. The same > goes for 4.1 or 4.2 which were known as 4.1BSD and 4.2BSD respectively. > Anyone who understands what BSD is, will know the difference. And the triva question is why was there 1BSD, 2BSD, 3BSD, and then the switch to 4.0BSD - 4.4BSD. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message