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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: 386 BSD
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <1if32hINNghk@menudo.uh.edu> <1993Jan7.191406.25765@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan7.205455.974@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:05:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.205455.974@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan7.191406.25765@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
- >
- >One of the reasons that originally steered me toward Linux instead of
- >386BSD was the latter's low version number (0.1) compared to Linux (0.97
- >at the time). From what I hear from you guys, that big difference may not be
- >justified by the features offered by both. What may be behind Jolitz's
- >thinking by assigning such an early version number to it? What does he
- >think he should have in addition to existing features to qualify for
- >version 1.0?
-
- You should ask Bill this question if you want a real answer. I know
- that 1 year ago, linux was at version 0.12 or so, and that the next release
- after 0.12 was 0.95 because Linus felt that we were getting closer to a stable
- system. Still, this does not prove anything when comparing linux to 386bsd.
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- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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