[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD ISO's

[Pete Wright]

Pete Wright wrote:

> freebsd wrote:
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>> Yeah 4.10, I just assume that 4.10 and 4.1 are the same thing, are 
>> they not? In decimals don't you always drop the trailing zero? The 
>> next release from 4.10 or 4.1 is 4.11 right? Are you thinking of 
>> 4.01? What do you mean when you refer to a branch?
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>> Jerry
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> Here is a good link that should explain the naming conventions with 
> FreeBSD:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#LATEST-VERSION 
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> Quickly, the naming convention is that the code base is version 4 and 
> the revision number is 11, meaning that there have been 11 updates to 
> the 4 code base.  So there has been 4.1 4.2...4.9 4.10 4.11  This is 
> similar to the linux kernel (2.4.0, 2.4.1...2.4.24 etc.).  So the 
> numbers after the "dot" are infact not decimals when refering to 
> releases.
>
oop sorry...4.11 has not been released yet ;)  That is actually slated 
to be the last 4.x release...


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