From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 16: 4:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661BF37B71A; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:04:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA28201; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:04:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:04:38 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Jim Mock , "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , , j mckitrick , Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness In-Reply-To: <20010316142527.B1278@mollari.cthul.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 4.3-PRERELEASE. Explains exactly what it is, and does so without > the negative connotations of -BETA. After having seen everything else that was proposed and shot down, this or something very similar (i.e. "PRE-RELEASE" or "PRE_RELEASE" or whatthehellever) is probably the best alternative to "BETA". I can't see any disadvantages to it other than it might still incur some hysteria in some newbies, but not nearly as much. Just my $.01 of course. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message