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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!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Why choose 2.1.7 ?? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 15 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E7B8Kp.Bo@nonexistent.com> References: <01bc310c$e9177b10$214f96cd@reality> <5gf7rn$p8@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Trace: 858808103/20565 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 21:48:25 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37305 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: : : > : ``late summer 1997'' (for the northern hemisphere, that it is ;) : > : > Thought that was when 2.2.x would be out? : : Who sais that they are not allowed to come out simultaneously? : : Originally, 2.1.6 and 2.2 were planned to be the same time. 2.2 has : been sidetracked, mostly due to some problems with the ahc driver. 2.2R did show up lately...but it seems to me simultaneous releases would cannibalize each other's market,admittedly not much of a concern for free software.