On Sunday, 6. February 2005 16:01, Chris wrote: > 4 - compatiblity, I remember using 5.2.1 and pretty much all software > worked well in that and then they did the bind defaulting to base and > libs version jump, why wasnt this done in 5.0
I personally told lots and lots of people to NOT use 5.2.1-Release and wait for 5.x to become a stable branch instead, but it still got installed far more often than it really should have. 5.2.1 was still a Technology Preview release - it was a snapshot of FreeBSD 5-CURRENT, just as 5.0-RELEASE, 5.1-RELEASE and 5.2-RELEASE were before. In retrospect, there probably should have been more warning signs on the website and the documentation to point out that fact. Also, there probably should have been more feature and driver backports to FreeBSD 4, so less people would have been tempted by the better hardware support and general friendlyness of FreeBSD 5-CURRENT. Too late to change now, but perhaps something that should be remembered for the next time FreeBSD goes through a similar transition period. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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