From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 4 9:32:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D995A37B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010304173235.IJXO25644.femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu>; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:32:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3AA27C32.C85E47FE@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 11:32:34 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Cc: Andrew Hesford , FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: Version Numbering References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think that Andrew was just having fun. Tom wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > > > What with all the version inflation going on in the Linux world, I have > > an idea for FreeBSD. > > > > Forget 4.3-STABLE. Skip to 4.4. And rather than calling it FreeBSD > > 4.4-STABLE, call it 4.4FreeBSD. That way, we can show off the roots of > > FreeBSD and make it sound cool, too! > > This discussion already occured over a year ago. Use the archive. > > > Or, we can stop people from asking, "Why is RedHat in version 7, > > Mandrake almost in version 8, and FreeBSD only in 4?" (assuming RedHat > > users even know what FreeBSD is). Just call the next release FreeBSD > > 10.3-STABLE or FreeBSD 2001-STABLE. > > Are people seriously fooled by version numbers? I've never seen anyone > on this list ask why the version number wasn't bigger. > > > -- > > Andrew Hesford > > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > Tom > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message