From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 10 6:13:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.128.1.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5E014E4A for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 06:13:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pulsifer@mediaone.net) Received: from ahp3 (ahp.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.184.250]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA25427; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:13:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Allen Pulsifer" To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" Cc: Subject: RE: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:13:35 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000109042111.D0285A80F@kendra.ne.mediaone.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have to agree with this poster. The next release should be called FreeBSD 5.0. "BSD 4.4" is a desciptive term still used to describe a whole family of OS's. People outside the FreeBSD circle are going to be confused between BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD 4.4. This can easily be avoided, at no cost, by calling the next release FreeBSD 5.0. Allen > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Snuffles on Sonata > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 11:21 PM > To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: 4.4 BSD forever? > > > Some of us remember 4.1 and 4.2 as well. :-) > > From a pragmatic standpoint, going to release FreeBSD 5.0 and > skipping all 4.x versions avoids confusion and honors the Source. > With this, the sequence remains linear and obvious, and has a > specific reason. > > -ahd- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message