On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:10:28AM -0800, Colin Percival wrote: > Danny Howard wrote: > > So ... I am genuinely curious ... if 6.0 is basically 5.4 plus > > improvements, why isn't it called 5.5? > > FreeBSD numbers releases based on compatibility, not based on > features. You can take programs compiled for FreeBSD 5.3 (the > first release from the 5-stable branch) and run them on FreeBSD > 5.4 and know that they will all work; but if you want to run > them on FreeBSD 6.0, you might need to recompile them.
So, the 6.0 denotes some note-worthy realignment of the symbol table or such. Thank you for an excellent answer, Colin. Some of us were secretly worried that FreeBSD was catching a case of the Sun Marketing. :) Cheers, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
