From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 4:51:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.Adl.USSR.net (digita1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8BE37B826 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 04:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wabit@adl.ussr.net) Received: from localhost (wabit@localhost) by gw.Adl.USSR.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4DBolQ21626; Sat, 13 May 2000 21:20:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:20:46 +0930 (CST) From: james To: Omachonu Ogali Cc: Brennan W Stehling , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess we'll know if bsd gets taken over by micro$oft, because we'll have freebsd 2000! :-)) regards james On Sat, 13 May 2000, Omachonu Ogali wrote: > Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 07:40:33 -0400 (EDT) > From: Omachonu Ogali > To: Brennan W Stehling > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: 5.0 already? > > On Sat, 13 May 2000, Brennan W Stehling wrote: [snip] > No, FreeBSD isn't doing a Slackware-type scheme. > > > Are we going to be running version 9.0 in less than 5 years? > > Possibly. I mean, do the differences between version numbers make a > difference to the operating system itself? If 4.0 was called 10.0, would > it matter that it has a new number? What if it was called 1.15? Version > numbers are just there for the purposes of keeping track of things, the > numbers themselves don't influence the software, and it's up to the > manafacturer of whatever software product to increment the version numbers > in any way they feel fit. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message