From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 24 14:59:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4375437BC53 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11551; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:59:27 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: D M P Cc: Brooks Davis , Linh Pham , John Baldwin , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.5-R CD sets? Message-ID: <20000724145927.A4911@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200007241710.KAA49402@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <20000724105036.A23374@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <397C9F40.E3F58F95@aracnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <397C9F40.E3F58F95@aracnet.com>; from dmp@aracnet.com on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:55:44PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:55:44PM -0700, D M P wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:20:22AM -0700, Linh Pham wrote: > > > > > > this has probably been covered before, but does anyone know if the 3.5.x > > > CD's will be part of the subscription releases or will 4.1 be the only > > > one? > > > > 3.5 will not be part of the subscription. IIRC, the 3.5 disks almost > > got cancled, but there turned out to be sufficient demand. > > What was the reasoning for its exclusion? If you mean the exclusion of 3.5 from the subscription, it was because 4.0 has generally been such a good release and 3.5 is such a non-entity relative to 3.4 that it was felt that most people wouldn't want it. Or at least, that's my understanding. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message