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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!dcs.ed.ac.uk!amber.epcc.ed.ac.uk!st From: st@amber.epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Message-ID: <DDGHIG.99u@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <KSTAILEY.95Aug16153212@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:01:27 GMT Lines: 19 In article <KSTAILEY.95Aug16153212@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Kenneth Stailey (kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote: : As for formal releases, core believes they have to be perfect. Core : switches the version number, adds "_BETA" to it and stops adding new : features, only bug fixes until the problem reports stop. Then "_BETA" : is removed from the version number and the release is frozen. Any : fixes after this are in separate patch files. So when will we see 1.1_BETA? I think one release per year is a good minimum to aim for (a year is a long time in computers, you might say), and I expect most of the ports have now seen significant progress since 1.0. Supposing a 1.1 release a year after 1.0, I guess the beta process should have started by now. -- Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, <s.telford@ed.ac.uk> University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.(+44 131 650 5978) -"Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" "What's the difference?" (Snow Crash)-