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Matthew Thyer <thyerm@satech.net.au> writes:
>This is ridiculous.
>
>FreeBSD 3.X is CURRENT!

how about

2.1-past
2.2-present
3.0-future

which actually explains it, but then again, so does just the number,
but in order to actually make it all understandable for new folks:

2.1-previous
2.2-current
(or simply 2.2-release)
3.0-experimental

Someone could even put more information about each release in the
readme.txt file at the top of ftp tree for each one.

Steve Roome.
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FreeBSD: What other choice is there ?