From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 10 7:11:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4743E14D46 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:11:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id PAA03025; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:11:25 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:11:25 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: "James E. Housley" Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Message-ID: <20000110151125.J25193@florence.pavilion.net> References: <3879E9B1.E11EC8D8@thehousleys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3879E9B1.E11EC8D8@thehousleys.net> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 09:16:17AM -0500, James E. Housley wrote: > Allen Pulsifer wrote: > > > > "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. > > > I agree too. I don't... FreeBSD is FreeBSD, and BSD is BSD - IMHO it doesn't matter that the people who don't know the difference get confused, if they're interested they'll find out. The versioning model of FreeBSD is good at the moment and I don't think that it matters that we have a version 4.4 or 4.5. If you use 5.0 for something else you'll confuse all of the developers, which is worse IMHO than confusing a few people outside the circle. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message