Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:49:41 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, <bright@wintelcom.net>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>, <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103160844480.16706-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <20010315201500.A2484@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:40:29PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Hmm. I've yet to get *any* mail about BETA scaring people, and we've > > been doing them for literally years at this point. I suspect you're > > overreacting somewhat to Saverio Perugini's recent mail in -stable, > > but I'll nonetheless entertain any suggestions on what I could call > > the "pre-RC" releases without confusing them with snapshots, which > > occur every day anyway, or the actual release. > > > > Drop by the newsgroup. There was a thread last week about someone > using cvsup expecting to get 4.2-stable and he got 4.3-beta. He > was annoyed and confused because he thought beta meant "beta > quality" (as in inferior software). I've heard that quite often on IRC as well. Sometimes to fix a problem I tell someone to upgrade to -STABLE, which happens to be 4.3-BETA at this time. I get the usual "BETA!?!?" response, whereby I have to explain that FreeBSD's "BETA" is nothing like, say, Microsoft's "BETA". I don't think its a big problem, just that it might discourage a few more freebsd-newbie users from using it than it would if it weren't called "BETA". -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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