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From: "Eugene Radchenko" <genie@org.chem.msu.su>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Walnut Creek CDROMs behind times
Date: 15 Dec 1996 15:46:55 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Moscow State University
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote in article
<58ssov$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de>...
> > -mi (who is afraid the 2.1.6 CDROM will
> > show up after 2.2 is FTPable)
>
> This is not unlikely at all. If FreeBSD 2.2 is something for you,
> then FreeBSD 2.1.6 most likely isn't. While making the schedules for
> 2.1.6 and 2.2, we even thought about releasing both at the same point
> in time, and asking Walnut Creek to release them as a 4 CD version.
> (It only didn't happen since 2.1.6 proved to be a little less work to
> get it ready than 2.2 turned out to be now.) Both releases are
> targeted for a very different set of users.
Now again, who are the intended users of RELEASE edition? I, personally,
have been quite happy with 2.1R (nothing like dozens of users, though).
Will 2.2R be as stable or I should wait for 2.2-stable?
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Eugene V. Radchenko Research associate, Computer Chemistry
E-mail: eugene@qsar.chem.msu.su Fax: +7-(095)939-0290
Ordinary mail: Chair of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry,
Moscow State University, 119899 Moscow, Russia
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