From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 09:48:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10773 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:48:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10768 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lurkie@wxs.nl) Received: from wxs.nl ([195.121.36.193]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with SMTP id AAA15D0 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:47:52 +0200 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:48:35 +0200 From: Marc Veldman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upcoming version upgrades? X-Mailer: AK-Mail 3.0b [eng] (unregistered) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <77182164128D.AAA15D0@smtp01.wxs.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Joe, > 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. Quote from 'The Complete FreeBSD' by Greg Lehey, 2nd edition page 8: "The suit was settled out of court, and the exact conditions were not all disclosed. The only one that became public was that BSDI (and, later, the FreeBSD project) would migrate their source to the newer 4.4BSD BSD sources, a thing that both groups were preparing to do in any case. FreeBSD fulfilled this obligation with the release of FreeBSD version 2.0 in late 1994" So, in short, FreeBSD is based on 4.4BSD. Probably a case of mistaken identity here. For further information on the developement process of FreeBSD, see the handbook, chapter 16 :" The cutting Edge: FreeBSD-current and FreeBSD-stable". Have a nice day, Marc Veldman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message