Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:21:29 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000513002128.B28383@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130133430.46652-100000@home.offwhite.net>; from brennan@offwhite.net on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 01:43:09AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130133430.46652-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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* Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> [000513 00:15] wrote: > 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. First off... 3.0-release was made over a year and a half ago. 4.0-release followed (a year and a half later), and the development version is 5.0 which afaik will be a long while before it's a -release. > 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? No, and you really shouldn't blame us for your failure to keep up with the most basic FreeBSD news. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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