From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 10 10:39: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC9914D61 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:38:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA03408; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:38:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:38:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Don Croyle Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0? In-Reply-To: <861zeghe5n.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Jul 1999, Don Croyle wrote: > 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 I thought 3 was 3 because of dual processor support stuff. > 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. Is there a file with a descript on what kinda stuff anyplace? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message