From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 7: 3:39 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 5316237B718; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:03:37 -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 JAA18173; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:03:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:03:27 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: , , , Jordan Hubbard , Steve Kargl Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 16-Mar-01 Chris Dillon wrote: > > 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 > > Heh.. actually it is.. > > MS run RC's and Beta's too. I'm referring to the code quality and general usefullness of the "BETA". To me, FreeBSD's "BETA" is just another term for "-STABLE in a code freeze because we're just about to do a release", not "a buggy piece of crap". -- 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