From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 9:49:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E23B37B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E43943EAC for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9CGnYKg036802; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:49:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9CGnTsD036797; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:49:29 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:49:29 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Dave Feustel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <20021012164929.GB36537@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Dave Feustel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-13.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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