From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 17:36:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBA014E80 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:36:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id KAA09408; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:35:43 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36DC8F1A.6B7C3EDC@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 10:23:38 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Brett Taylor , Bill Fumerola , Adam Turoff , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart References: <4.1.19990302132445.040f6d40@localhost> <4.1.19990302154522.03fb3730@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass wrote: > > Sorry, but recent releases that are used in existing mission critical systems > are NOT "dead limbs" to be sawn off within only a couple of months of > release. I can see the Linuxoids ranting now: "See? The FreeBSD team doesn't > even provide ports for a release that's less than 6 months old! So much > for their 'great ports collection.' That's the kind of support you'll get if > you use FreeBSD." I seem to recall that 2.2.8-RELEASE, which, mind you, was released *after* 3.0-RELEASE, was announced to be the last 2.2.x-RELEASE. If people didn't get a clue from that... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message