From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 1:36:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br (bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br [143.106.51.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7012437BD7D for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 01:36:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atabraga@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br) Received: by bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 74C7619C7; Sat, 13 May 2000 05:36:17 -0300 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14621.5121.399802.553195@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 05:36:17 -0300 (EST) From: Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga To: Mark Huizer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <20000513101952.A589@dohd.cx> References: <20000513013038.D28383@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000513101952.A589@dohd.cx> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.3.1 Reply-To: atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br X-URL: http://www.iqm.unicamp.br Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's a very good discussion, important and so, bud the better place for that (I guess) is in advocacy list. What are you think so? Ata. on Saturday, 13 May 2000 10:19:52, Mark Huizer wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 03:10:32AM -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > 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. > > Have you read the handbook on the website about this? It explains all > your questions. 5.x is -current, 4.x is -stable. For at least 2 years > we've had these trees available, with the stable branch only getting the > bugfixes and part of the new stuff after it has been seriously put to > the test. So there will be 4.1, there might be 4.2, dunno. And there > will be development in the -current branch. There is no 5.0 release. > It's just development. And if you call Linux more conservative for > that... I seem to recall a thing about odd and even numbered kernel > releases... > > > Mark > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br http://www.iqm.unicamp.br To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message