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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: Why choose 2.1.7 ??
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: "Kurt Schafer" <kschafer@cyberbeach.net> wrote:
: 
: We expect 2.2 to become the `-stable' branch when 2.2R is released.
: We have already been declaring the 2.1 branch dead for so many times
: that we don't do it anymore. :-)

Hmm,I think the third time's the charm.

: > And how about 3.0 ? I've loaded up a few snapshots and it seems great. Is
: > there an estimated release date on that ?
: 
: We are always great in estimates.  How many of them do you want? :-))
: 
: ``late summer 1997''  (for the northern hemisphere, that it is ;)

Thought that was when 2.2.x would be out?
(Well,last year that was about when both 2.1.5 and 2.2 were supposed
to be out).

: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

And now that OpenDOS has been released by Caldera
(http://www.caldera.com/dos/html/dload.htm)...?