From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 10:49:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B85015120 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:49:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (lowell@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19717; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:49:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA01548; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:49:44 -0500 (EST) To: Sheldon Hearn , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anone know when 4.0 is going to be released? References: <78703.945696438@axl.noc.iafrica.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 20 Dec 1999 13:49:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn's message of Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:27:18 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn writes: > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:13:46 GMT, Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote: > > > I'm holding back on a total re-install and am wondering if 4.0-STABLE is > > going to be around soon or should I put on 3.4 and live with it for another > > year or so? > > If a year is how long your next overhaul will need to last, you should > probably wait for 4.0-RELEASE, which is expected to be cut mid-January. Is that the "official" advice? I assumed that -STABLE would stay with 3.x for a while after 4.0, just as it did with 3.0, and that the dot-zero release would be recommended more for early adopters than general use. As in 3.0 (and -CURRENT in general)... - Lowell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message