From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 17 2: 9:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC2B37B5CB; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:09:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA44355; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:09:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:09:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Brad Knowles Cc: Warner Losh , Glen Gross , Ruslan Ermilov , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > Unfortunately, there are *way* too many people who are ready to >jump on the .0 release, and there's not likely to be too much you can >do to protect them from blowing off their foot in this fashion. I've long wondered if there's not a better word than RELEASE to append to these .0 versions. Perhaps 4.0-BETA or something equally scary will keep the enterprise users away from a .0 version. ------------------------------------------------------------- | -Brandon D. Valentine bandix at looksharp.net | bandix on EFnet IRC BVRiker on AIM ------------------------------------------------------------- | "...and as for hackers, we note that all of those known to | The Register are so strapped financially that seizing their | property would be tantamount to squeezing blood from a | stone." -- The Register, 02/17/2000 ------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message