From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 10 18:54:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2384114CB4 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:54:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hiwaay.net) Received: from tnt6-216-180-4-243.dialup.HiWAAY.net (tnt6-216-180-4-243.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.243]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA24520; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:52:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:51:15 -0600 (CST) From: Kris Kirby To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: charon@freethought.org, Peter Radcliffe , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Silly Things Marketers Do (Was: Re: 4.4 BSD forever?) In-Reply-To: <96557.947384746@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > And then things start happening like 3.5 coming out after 4.0... > > Which is just fine since they denote separate and parallel branches of > development. If you want to take the version numbers to their logical > degree of absurdity and start doing things like adding 2.2.8 to 3.2 to > get FreeBSD 5.4.8, the most stable version you could possibly imagine, > that's your business. :) I almost had FreeBSD 6.4, but I decided to make two CDs instead. (i386 + alpha) :-) My vote for best mix was FreeBSD 3.0-R. It seemed like the best one to me. --- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. | ------------------------------------------------------- "God gave them the ability to reproduce... ... Science gave us the hope they won't." -KBK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message