From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 2: 0:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F0B37B83E for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 02:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@neomedia.it) Received: from localhost (ppp1-pa5.neomedia.it [195.103.207.113]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA18133; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:59:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:02:06 GMT Message-ID: <20000513.10020600@mis.configured.host> Subject: Re: 5.0 already? To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 5/13/00, 7:43:09 AM, Brennan W Stehling wrote = regarding 5.0 already?: > How is FreeBSD moving along so quickly? One month I am running 3.0R=20 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=20 version > which demands such widely spread version numbers? > My flawed upgrade to 4.0 a while back left me feeling FreeBSD is going= =20 too > fast and that stability and quality is suffering. A friend of mine=20 was > actually scared off and now prefers to go with Linux as it's=20 development > seems to be more conservative. > Why is FreeBSD going so fast? Could it be that the upcoming release=20 of > Mac OS X was based on mostly on 3.2 and that FreeBSD wants to appear=20 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 |=20 www.sncalumni.com > Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? Dear Brennan, this is the strength of Open Source ;-))) Seriously, if you want a stable environment you can choose 3.4-S, or=20 the new 4-STABLE line, which, apart from (very) minor issues,seems to=20 perform quite well.=20 BTW, I run all three versions, ehem, when -CURRENT boots of course :-) If you look at the matter the other way round, well, you'll see how=20 many years it takes e.g. M$ to introduce similar changes=20 (=3Dimprovements) ...=20 "Panta rei" (ie everything changes) should probably be FreeBSD's=20 motto, and this IS a good thing. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message