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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 11 Mar 94 03:46:43 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <GLASS.94Mar10154207@sun-lamp.postgres.Berkeley.EDU> glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) writes:
>Michael L. VanLoon writes:
> NetBSD-1.0 is probably a couple months away, yet. The core team won't
> release it til it meets all their pre-determined criteria for what
> they want 1.0 to contain, and until every bug they're aware of has
> been fixed.
My impressions...
>I wanted to clarify a number of points raised by Michael's post.
>a) No release date has been announced or promised.
>b) The only people who officially speak for the NetBSD project as a
> whole are the NetBSD core, who are currently:
>c) We will put out a release as soon as possible. A small and well defined
> defined set of tasks remain to be completed before we issue a release. We
> hope to complete these tasks in short order, but remember we are a
> volunteer group with other responsibilities (eat, sleep, be merry, etc.).
>d) It is our intent to make this coming release a multi-architecture release.
> This means one common snapshot of the mainline tree as the basis for
> binary releases for many of our supported platforms.
>e) Again, it ain't official unless you hear it from the core or from the port
> owner.
Thanks for the input, Adam. I appreciate the clarification from an
authoritative source. I'm sure many have wondered just what exactly
was going on inside there. :-)
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