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From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com>
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Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:10:28AM -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
> Danny Howard wrote:
> > So ... I am genuinely curious ... if 6.0 is basically 5.4 plus
> > improvements, why isn't it called 5.5?
> 
> FreeBSD numbers releases based on compatibility, not based on
> features. You can take programs compiled for FreeBSD 5.3 (the
> first release from the 5-stable branch) and run them on FreeBSD
> 5.4 and know that they will all work; but if you want to run
> them on FreeBSD 6.0, you might need to recompile them.

So, the 6.0 denotes some note-worthy realignment of the symbol table or
such.  Thank you for an excellent answer, Colin.  Some of us were
secretly worried that FreeBSD was catching a case of the Sun Marketing.
:)

Cheers,
-danny

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