On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:48:08AM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
>
> UCB and AT&T had agreed that there were to be no new releases of BSD
> and that 4BSD was the final release. 4.1BSD - 4.4BSD were named such
> because they were "officially" only modifications to 4BSD and
> Actually, no. The distribution is called 4.4BSD, not BSD 4.4. The same
> goes for 4.1 or 4.2 which were known as 4.1BSD and 4.2BSD respectively.
> Anyone who understands what BSD is, will know the difference.
You're right. My bad. 4.4BSD.
See how easy it is to get it confused?
Allen
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Allen Pulsifer wrote:
> I have to agree with this poster. The next release should be
> called FreeBSD 5.0.
>
> "BSD 4.4" is a desciptive term still used to describe a whole
> family of OS's. People outside the FreeBSD circle are going to be
> confused between BSD 4.4 and F
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 09:16:17AM -0500, James E. Housley wrote:
> Allen Pulsifer wrote:
> >
> > "BSD 4.4" is a desciptive term still used to describe a whole
> > family of OS's. People outside the FreeBSD circle are going to be
> > confused between BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD 4.4. This can easily be
