Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:49:29 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <20021012164929.GB36537@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> 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? Because there's a lot of radically new stuff in 5.0, and it needs time to stabilize properly in general use before any right thinking person would use it on a machine critical to their business. In the mean time, 4-STABLE and the -RELEASE branches split from it will still need to be maintained. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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