From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 22:24:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDFB37B8FA for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 22:24:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA10234; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:23:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA16256; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:23:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA16252; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:23:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:23:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Eric Ogren Cc: Omachonu Ogali , Brennan W Stehling , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <20000513195914.B11952@earthlink.net> 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'm not spreading a rumor, Jordan did say that the 4.x won't be "officially" stable until 4.1. It is in the mailing lists. I will concur however that 4.0 is surprisingly stable for a x.0 release. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eric Ogren wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:35:34PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > Alright, this is how it works. 3.x-STABLE is STILL the only TRUELY Stable > > tree. the x.0 releases are meant to be releases which iron some stuff out, > > and when the x.1 release comes out, that is when the tree becomes -STABLE. > > > > PLEASE stop spreading this rumour about 4.0 not being ready for true > use. As has been said by both committers and non-committers, 4.0-RELEASE > is nothing at all like 3.0-RELEASE, and it is ready for use. > > Also, if you read cvs-all, you would notice that the majority of changes > get MFC'd ONLY to 4-STABLE; although there are certainly still commits to > RELENG_3, it's not the "actively developed" -STABLE branch anymore. > > > > > -Stable progresses along with bugfixes and minor added features from > > -CURRENT, and every so often a -RELEASE is taken as a snapshot from > > -STABLE and given a new version number. -Current takes on the next major > > revision number, but usually doesn't come out for a year to a year and a > > half. > > > > Nod. Just because there is a 5.0-CURRENT doesn't mean that there isn't > going to be at least a 4.1-RELEASE and a 4.2-RELEASE. > > Eric > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message