From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 9 6:15:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA16B37B422 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:15:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13XkTW-000IMj-00; Sat, 09 Sep 2000 15:15:18 +0200 Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:15:18 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: John Toon Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please consider some cosmetic changes in boot messages Message-ID: <20000909151518.A70536@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <2762.968421829@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <39B8F56A.F8F77651@btinternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39B8F56A.F8F77651@btinternet.com>; from j.a.toon@btinternet.com on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:19:22PM +0100 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2000-09-08 (15:19), John Toon wrote: > > I have a plan to revamp the way that the startup process's output is > > presented and stored for later viewing. I need to chat to some folks > > first about the best way to do this, first. Be patient, and look > > forward to something interesting in 5.0-RELEASE. :-) > > On that subject, can you give me a rough projection as to when > 5.0-RELEASE is likely to arrive? FreeBSD 2.2.1 1997-04-xx [FBD] FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD] FreeBSD 4.0 2000-03-13 [FBD] So we're talking 2001-07 to 2001-11, at a wild guess. We have lots of new developments, but also a much more streamlined system. It's anyone's guess when it'll be deemed stable and complete enough to roll. (and please don't quote me, since this is only my guess) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message