Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:52:28 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <20021012225228.GA41993@ns1.webwarrior.net> In-Reply-To: <E180Oyi-0007k5-00@granger.mail.mindspring.net> References: <E180Oyi-0007k5-00@granger.mail.mindspring.net>
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:25:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > At http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html > I find the flollowing: > > "The next scheduled release on the -stable branch will be FreeBSD 4.8 on > February 1, 2003. Subsequent releases will follow at 4 month intervals. The > first release on what is now the -current branch will be FreeBSD 5.0, > scheduled for November 20, 2002." > > Why is version 5.0 being released before 4.8? > > Thanks, > > Dave Feustel > 4.8 will be a maintainance release to the 4.x branch. 5.0 is the development branch and will become the stable branch in November. Many of the FreeBSD users are wary of .0 releases and will stick to 4.x until 5.x matures. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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