From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 27 22: 8: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73AD837B856 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:08:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA25481; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:08:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38BA10C2.62109155@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:08:02 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Heckaman Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS Subject: Re: 4.0 and it's near approach. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Heckaman wrote: > > Hi, > > I've never been through a major FreeBSD version change before, as I > started using it in the early 3.1 stage. My question is, when 4.0-RELEASE > comes out, will there be a 4.X-STABLE branch immediately? No. > Also, will 3.X > continue for one more "cap off" release, as I heard meantioned before. At least one. > I plan on taking my workstation immediately to 4.0-REL Why? > (or -STABLE) but I > do not plan to upgrade the servers for at least 2 minor versions, for the > obvious reasons. You shouldn't even consider using 4.x till you've been reading -current for a while. I don't want to sound negative, but this isn't something to jump into. Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message