Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-17 Thread Eli Marmor
> It's always the worst time to release a new distro. It makes sense, but it's not right in practice. Sometimes, so many packgaes of Linux have major upgrades almost together, and then may pas a year or two without so many changes. It happened before RH6.0 was released, and RH6 actually include

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-16 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:28:12 +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Udi Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> As for RedHat, as far as I remember, the X.2 were always the last version >> before the (X+1).0 product... > >Do you remember far enough? I don't think there was anyth

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-16 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:48:45 +0200, Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, Udi! > >On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:31:06PM +0200, you wrote the following: > >> As for RedHat, as far as I remember, the X.2 were always the last version >> before the (X+1).0 product... and were always the most sta

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW (probably not much), Red Hat 4.0 shipped with Linux 2.0, and > maybe even 3.0.3 did (but I wouldn't know since I used Slackware > then). That was 1.2.13, IIRC. [History is on topic, isn't it? ;-)] -- Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | [EMA

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-16 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Udi! On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:31:06PM +0200, you wrote the following: > As for RedHat, as far as I remember, the X.2 were always the last version > before the (X+1).0 product... and were always the most stable. > IIRC, it was RedHat 5.0 which shipped with Kernel 2.0, and 6.0 shipped with >

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Udi Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As for RedHat, as far as I remember, the X.2 were always the last version > before the (X+1).0 product... Do you remember far enough? I don't think there was anything between 3.0.3 and 4.0... ;-) Oh, weel, ancient history... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | B

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-16 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:31:06PM +0200, Udi Finkelstein wrote: > As for RedHat, as far as I remember, the X.2 were always the last version > before the (X+1).0 product... and were always the most stable. > IIRC, it was RedHat 5.0 which shipped with Kernel 2.0, and 6.0 shipped with > kernel 2.2 .

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-16 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:51:09 +0200, Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(*) Regarding RH6.2 - as always, maybe except for timing of 6.0, >this is probably the worst time to release a new distro, and RH It's always the worst time to release a new distro. When you whip mature components, you g

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-16 Thread Eli Marmor
> XFree4, FreeBSD4, (almost) Linux 2.4 - this is one busy month! Why going so far (Linux 2.4) ? There are much closer announcements, like VMware 2.0 (released in the beginning of this month), Solaris 8.0 (available since the beginning of this month, source code to be released soon), RedHat 6.2(*)

[OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-15 Thread Chen Shapira
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh http://appwatch.com/Linux/ XFree4, FreeBSD4, (almost) Linux 2.4 - this is one busy month! Thanks, Chen. -- Chen ShapiraWeb Developer and Linux Activist Hackers do for love what other people wouldn't do for money