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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs .... Date: 16 Sep 1995 11:49:39 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 31 Message-ID: <43edkj$li6@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <41epe5$onh@mailnews.kub.nl> <41q8fl$8nt@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <1995Sep8.084248.28094@state.systems.sa.gov.au> <43cnds$c5p@ivory.lm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: parker.eecs.berkeley.edu In article <43cnds$c5p@ivory.lm.com>, Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> wrote: >>In article <41q8fl$8nt@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) writes: >>There is absolutely no need to do it. Almost all releases are "stable", >>and the few that aren't are quickly replaced. > >This is complete and utter bullshit. If all releases are stable, why is >there a new one every 8 hours? Why are FreeBSD people always such a**h***s? Perhaps you are confusing kernel releases with distributions. Sure, new "development" kernels may be released every couple of days, but new distributions are released over a much larger period of time. The latest version of Slackware hasn't been updated since May 10, 1995. The latest stable kernel hasn't been updated since Aug 2, 1995. >I'm sure you won't have -any- problem >explaining about the new functionality included in releases 1.1.0 through >1.1.59 The 1.odd.* numbers are development kernels. The 1.even.* numbers are release versions. Of course there will be problems with the development kernels! For more stable kernels, you should stick to the 1.even.* series of kernels. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu