From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 24 16:19: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6773537B55A for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:18:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14834; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:18:24 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id QAA19287; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:18:01 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:18:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Darren Pilgrim To: Brooks Davis Cc: Linh Pham , John Baldwin , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.5-R CD sets? In-Reply-To: <20000724145927.A4911@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: > 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. Fair enough. Just the same, though, I'll be ordering 3.5 sets when they're released. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message