Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:54:14 +0100 From: Kai Voigt <k@123.org> To: Trond Endrestol <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> Cc: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@nic.nl>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Message-ID: <20000111125414.Y27079@abc.123.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001111232020.80351-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> References: <200001111107.MAA09106@114046.kema.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001111232020.80351-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
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Trond Endrestol wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: > > According to Kirk McKusick's chapter in «Open Sources: Voices from the > Open Source Revolution» 4.1BSD was originally planned to be released > as 5BSD, but there were objections from AT&T. AT&T said that the > customers would be confused if both SysV and 5BSD were available. > (Huh?) Berkeley agreed to keep the major number at 4 and only increase > the minor number. That's why Berkeley released subsequent releases as > 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4BSD. Oh, then it should be FreeBSD 6.0, so we won't conflict with SysV :-) Or we switch to letters instead of numbers, or name it after the current president of some carribean country? SCNR, Kai -- kai voigt hamburger chaussee 36 24113 kiel 04 31 - 22 19 98 69 http://k.123.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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