Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:48:40 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Josef El-Rayes <josef@freebsd.org> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 & 4.10 production release? Message-ID: <418E51E8.5070300@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20041107164200.GA6788@daemon.li> References: <20041107164200.GA6788@daemon.li>
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Josef El-Rayes wrote: > hi! > > although it might just be wordsmithing or nitpicking, > i think, as it is on the frontpage of the website, it > might confuse users, when we both declare 4.10 and 5.3 > as production release. > > i mean, > which project ever had two 'stable' releases? > which one is recommended for which purpose? > is there a deprecated one? > > i think we should use some less irritating definitions > for our two releases, so a user with not that much clue > about freebsd knows where to start. > > greets, josef It's being discussed at the moment. Please, it's not the end of the freaking world that there are two 'Production Releases' on the front page. Would you prefer that 5.3 be under the label 'New Technology', even though it isn't? Yes, FreeBSD has two production releases. Microsoft has had 2 production releases in the past. RedHat and SuSE have multiple production releases. It's not the end of the world =-/ Scott
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