From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 14:57:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C2116A403 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:57:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F6B13C46D for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:57:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so2655427wxc for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:57:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZrbxBTWSzuhK90RrC7bHr+HG6AKYquk/NEV50e6suBQO2h+boZi7EkbFPP4+wJ4uUWWCP8C0L+/9k508U6Qlmokbvkdx5BJ2MHiixsldAdzbRp7NENLTI4CcS0q5+gEQE93GcJgzSxjeAsVozsjs1eN8TTRQtVw/IXFYJ4gakzM= Received: by 10.70.87.11 with SMTP id k11mr16690824wxb.1166799033073; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:50:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.14.20 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:50:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <14989d6e0612220650r3b47be00q6ceccfe61d53cb3e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:50:32 +0100 From: "Christian Walther" To: "Pete French" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200612221343.21237.lofi@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, lofi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:57:44 -0000 Could be a reference to the Linux world, where every odd kernel version number (e.g. 2.1, 2.3, 2.5...) are considered experimental/development kernels. When a kernel is suggested to be "stable", it gets a new version number. 2.5.X becomes 2.6.0 eventually, which marks the end of the V2.5 development. I guess that's why he mentions kernel.org. I never downloaded a FreeBSD kernel there. ;-)