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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.uni.net.za!ru.uni.net.za!wits.uni.net.za!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in3.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 25 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E61LAn.6vx@nonexistent.com> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <32FF86B6.2781E494@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com> X-Trace: 856678413/8019 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 06:13:35 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35966 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: : : > I've noticed that ever since 2.0Alpha,each release(2.0R/2.0.5/2.1/2.1.5/ : > 2.1.6/now 2.1.7) has been essentially a bugfix of the last... : : That's vastly true, yes. 2.2 is technologically a major step. Meanwhile,I'm still running my machines off 2.1,though any new machines/ new installs will be 2.1.6 or higher.(I've suggested to my father that he add 2.1.6 to the W*nd*ws 95 machine he just got). Will the bugfix curve for 2.2.x be any quicker? One would hope so before 3.x becomes the hot issue... : > but also,a lot of the "What's new since 2.1.6" stuff in the 2.2G release : > notes is reproduced in the "What's new since 2.2.x" list in the 3.0SNAP : > release notes!This needs cleaning up... : : Ah, don't take them serious yet... this part of the documentation : will probably only be upgraded during the 3.0-ALPHA or -BETA phase, : and that's quite some way to go. I'm surprised that Jordan has : already changed the 2.2 into a 3.0 there. ;-) A lot of it's boilerplate,yes...but needs editing!