From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 8 2:12: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vkhdib01.hda.hydro.com (vkhdib01.hda.hydro.com [136.164.216.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF8115838 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 02:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Terje.Mathisen@hda.hydro.com) Received: from no115350p4 ([136.164.13.19]) by vkhdib01.hda.hydro.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA44248; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:11:59 +0100 Message-ID: <38770D6D.C84@hda.hydro.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 11:11:57 +0100 From: Terje Mathisen Organization: Hydro X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4 BSD forever? References: <200001072333.AAA06549@info.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > Is FreeBSD ever going to get past 4.4? In a nostalgic way, it would be > > > > Yes, FreeBSD is going to get past 4.4. As much as I admire your idea > > for its style, I think our release names are going to be selected more > > on their mathematic than their asthetic values. :-) > > especially because unlike latex and tex, we don't have any important > irrational number like e or pi starting with 4 which would > give us an infinite supply of digits... What's wrong with 4.4.4.4.4...(probably shorted to 4.4(3) for daily use)? :-) Terje -- - Using self-discipline, see http://www.eiffel.com/discipline "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message