Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 03:10:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130301370.46652-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <20000513013038.D28383@fw.wintelcom.net>
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I did not mean to start anything. It just seems to be getting ahead of the game developing 5.0 when there is no 4.1 or 4.2 yet. I realize it is a development version, but the fundamental reasons are not documented in anything I have read. For example, some DVD support is in the 4.0 branch while there is no work in moving any of that back to 3.4 STABLE. That could be because of some technical reason that I am not aware of, or simply a resource mangement decision. If so, I can understand that. There is no reason new features in the current kernel need to go back to the previous branch. People can just upgrade. But as people like myself are getting into 4.0 and finding things which need to be fixed, the 5.0 has started. It has always been my assumption that the next version is based on the previous, but here the previous version has not been perfected and the next version has started. That is what I do not understand. That is why I thought the 5.0 version was the BSDi merge which is something I have read is going to be done over the next few years. I just want to understand how this version system supposed to work. 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? On Sat, 13 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> [000513 00:45] wrote: > > How can I keep up? I looked at the release and news pages on the > > freebsd.org website and did not see any mention of what is going on with > > 5.0. And I read DaemonNews and Slashdot all of the time. They make > > mention of only minor things. > > > > I see it mentioned and at times there is a mention of something happening > > or some new drive is added either to 4.0 or 5.0 without really any big > > picture anywhere. > > > > The only place to get the latest is this list... and you respond by > > telling me it is my fault that I am not keeping up. Do you really feel > > that I am at fault if I have to ask to find out about 5.0 development to > > learn what is going on? > > Yes it is. > > As I said, 5.0 is the developer/experimental version, there is no > 5.0-release yet. If you know Linux then consider 5.0 one of the > "odd numbered versions" of the Linux kernel right now, in a year > or so 5.0 should be released. > > If you want to keep informed about what's going on in 5.0 then > subscribe to some of the technical mailing lists and read them, or > wait for the release and read the release notes. > > Making small accusations that the versioning is political in nature > rather than for technical reasons is just silly. > > -- > -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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