From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 16:50:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5CB1554E for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:50:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03230; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:50:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200001130050.RAA03230@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: 4.4 BSD forever? In-Reply-To: <20000109042111.D0285A80F@kendra.ne.mediaone.net> from Snuffles on Sonata at "Jan 8, 0 11:21:11 pm" To: root@kew.com (Snuffles on Sonata) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:50:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Snuffles on Sonata wrote: > Some of us remember 4.1 and 4.2 as well. :-) My first BSD-flavored UNIX was a 4.2 from Mt. Xinu running on a DEC VAX 11/780. Though I'd been involved in some SysVish thingies (remember Convergent Technologies?) before that. > From a pragmatic standpoint, going to release FreeBSD 5.0 and > skipping all 4.x versions avoids confusion and honors the Source. > With this, the sequence remains linear and obvious, and has a > specific reason. Of all the comments on numbering I've read so far, I like this one. Numbers increase, so comparisons work. It pays homage, in a slightly esoteric (and geeky) way. It gives an opportunity to evangelize a bit to someone who enquires. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message