FreeBSD Version Release numbers

[Jamie Bowden]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, David Schultz wrote:

> Thankfully FreeBSD does not have a dedicated marketing department.
> Apparently after Sun multithreaded its kernel and released Solaris
> 2.0, people weren't willing to call it stable until 2.3 or so.  It
> will be interesting to see how FreeBSD does a decade later.
> Performance aside, things seem to be looking pretty good so far.

Solaris 2.3?  Stable?  You'll excuse while I die laughing now.

Jamie Bowden

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