From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 10 10:51:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out.vma.verio.net (smtp-out.vma.verio.net [168.143.0.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201EE14FCC for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:51:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas@clark.net) Received: from smtp-gw2.vma.verio.net ([168.143.0.22]) by smtp-out.vma.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 1131F2-0003B4-00; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:48:48 -0400 Received: from minotaur (thomas.clark.net [168.143.2.191]) by smtp-gw2.vma.verio.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA17352; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:51:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990710135451.00971100@pop3.clark.net> X-Sender: thomas@pop3.clark.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:54:51 -0400 To: Steve Hovey , Don Croyle From: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: 4.0? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <861zeghe5n.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:38 PM 7/10/99 -0400, Steve Hovey wrote: > > >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. Not to mention AOUT => ELF. Mark --- thomas@clark.net ---> http://www.clark.net/pub/thomas PBEM Eldritch --------> http://www.pmpro.com/eldritch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message