From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 23:43:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D55A37BCB1 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 23:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA50791 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 01:43:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 01:43:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 5.0 already? 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 How is FreeBSD moving along so quickly? One month I am running 3.0R and a few months later we are past 3.4 and on to 4.0 STABLE and finally we have 5.0 out there already before a 4.1 STABLE exists. I am confused. What is going on with all these branches? Is 5.0 the FreeBSD/BSDi merge? Is there a major technology leap with each version which demands such widely spread version numbers? My flawed upgrade to 4.0 a while back left me feeling FreeBSD is going too fast and that stability and quality is suffering. A friend of mine was actually scared off and now prefers to go with Linux as it's development seems to be more conservative. Why is FreeBSD going so fast? Could it be that the upcoming release of Mac OS X was based on mostly on 3.2 and that FreeBSD wants to appear to be years past that version? If so, is it? Are we going to be running version 9.0 in less than 5 years? Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message