I'll go even further. Yesterday Apple (http://www.apple.com)
anounce the formal release date of March 24, 2001 for OS X.
Jessem.
On 10 Jan, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>>
>> Actually it says right now on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/
>> that 4.3 will be available in late March. It seems unusual that such a
>> precise time would be placed on the release already. I think the date
>
> Not really. We schedule the releases for every 4 months, that being 3
> a year, and they thus fall on predictable months (the day is a little
> more loose, usually specified with no more than 2 weeks precision).
>
> The schedule is set on a date vs feature basis because the former
> practice leads to a better track record in getting releases out on a
> timely basis and because if you want to do things like provide CD
> media, you need to pre-schedule time with the CD replicators and they
> don't work to fuzzy schedules.
>
> That said, a release has been known to be delayed or even cancelled
> due to some major problem, but that's a rare event and one which will
> hopefully remain so.
>
> - Jordan
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