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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!news.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news From: Matthew White <mwhite@cs.columbia.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD Future... Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 06:14:14 -0400 Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science Lines: 22 Message-ID: <326363F6.41C67EA6@cs.columbia.edu> References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> <53o4tg$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3262470F.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: freehold.cs.columbia.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > If we released 2.2 in December it'd serious make WC's Christmas, but > it's simply not goingto be ready in time (with the level of polish we > or our users are expecting) and so we (the project) have pushed it into > Q1 of 1997. > > It's late, we know it's late, but better late than a sub-standard > replacement for 2.1.x, which is what 2.2 is supposed to be. In the > meantime, I'll keep releasing 2.2-SNAPs for those who need the latest > bits in fully installable form. Any word on whether the first iteration on the SMP stuff is gonna make it into 2.2? -Matt -- ---------- Matt White Dept of Computer Science mwhite@cs.columbia.edu Columbia University http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mwhite