From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 6:49:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0664437B71A; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:49:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA17698; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:49:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:49:41 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Steve Kargl Cc: Jordan Hubbard , , , Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' In-Reply-To: <20010315201500.A2484@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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