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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:57 am, Craig Reyenga wrote:
> Perhaps all odd major numbers should be considered development versions.
> 5.3 would instead be called 6.0, to signify that it is ready for general

*shudder* sounds too much like red-hat to me!

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