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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ?
Date: 23 Feb 1997 00:18:55 GMT
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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.

> 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. ;-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)