From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 09:32:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08592 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:32:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08555 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:32:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA10899; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807011631.JAA10899@implode.root.com> To: "Garcia, Joe D. (WANG)" cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: upcoming version upgrades? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jul 1998 11:14:25 EDT." <417D4F1312D2D0118C6E00805FC14838315BD5@AMHOUX5> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 09:31:30 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 >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. Your admin is confused. FreeBSD is entirely independant of the BSD from UCB (which stopped at v4.4). I don't know how many versions we'll be doing of FreeBSD, but I expect the project to live and continue actively with development for at least another 10 years and I wouldn't be surprised if it lived for 20 years or more. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message