From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 4: 5: 8 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 23E4C14D9F for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:05:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA11134; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id EAA46293; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:05:00 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Trond Endrestol Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Message-ID: <20000111040500.A46259@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200001111107.MAA09106@114046.kema.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:40:33PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT 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 Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:40:33PM +0100, Trond Endrestol 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. Correct answer! Now that we've had our education contribution from this topic, it is time to let the discussion of the next major release of FreeBSD DIE! -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message