From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 08:53:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01913 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 08:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA01871 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 08:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yrPBY-0001Aw-00; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:52:40 +0200 Message-ID: <19980701175240.B4488@cityip.co.za> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:52:40 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: "Garcia, Joe D. (WANG)" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Cc: jgarcia1@hotmail.com Subject: Re: upcoming version upgrades? Mail-Followup-To: "Garcia, Joe D. (WANG)" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" , jgarcia1@hotmail.com References: <417D4F1312D2D0118C6E00805FC14838315BD5@AMHOUX5> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <417D4F1312D2D0118C6E00805FC14838315BD5@AMHOUX5>; from Garcia, Joe D. (WANG) on Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 11:14:25AM -0400 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 01 Jul 1998 at 11:14 SAT, Garcia, Joe D. (WANG) wrote: > > I was told by a person who is a UNIX admin that he was reading that > freebsd will not be going further than version 4.4 and that I had to I think you (or your admin friend) may be confusing FreeBSD with BSD _per se_. Without going into any detail at all, the group which developed the BSD operating system at UC Berkeley has disbanded. The last major release from them was 4.4BSD. FreeBSD (and OpenBSD and NetBSD) are volunteer efforts not only to maintain the code originating at Berkeley, but to update and add to it continually. At present, the stable releases of FreeBSD are numbered 2.2.x The development releases are numbered 3.x > make a decision on whether I would go with Linux or freebsd, they are > both excellent operating systems, but the freebsd is alot more stable. If FreeBSD can lay claim to greater stability it is (amongst other things) because it's built on this established and well-tested code base. Note that I said "stable", not "stagnant". ;-) FreeBSD, as such, is certainly being developed very actively. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message