From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 23:49:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C16037BCB1 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 23:49:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4D7LTW02310; Sat, 13 May 2000 00:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:21:29 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000513002128.B28383@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brennan@offwhite.net on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 01:43:09AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brennan W Stehling [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