freebsd 7 release date :)

vuthecuong cuongvt at fpt.vn
Mon Aug 20 16:40:13 PDT 2007



Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:15:10PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote:
>
>   
>> On 20/08/2007, at 10:47 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> just for reference only:
>>>>> Original release planned date of 7.0 was end of Jul. But now is  
>>>>> nearly end
>>>>> of Aug.
>>>>> So Which date you guess 7.0 will be released?  :D
>>>>>           
>>>> when it will be ready. if time is more important than quality for  
>>>> you get
>>>> simply get -current. even if not - and you would like help testing  
>>>> it,
>>>> fetch and report problems.
>>>>         
>>> There was obviously no intent to challenge or apply preasure in the
>>> question so you don't need to be snippy.   If you don't have any  
>>> useful
>>> information or at least information you think might be useful  
>>> (qualifier
>>> for my posts) then don't bother replying - at least not snippy, posts.
>>> We can afford to be civil - expecially when a civil question is asked.
>>>
>>> The person was just noting that the old guesses were no longer  
>>> operable
>>> and hoping that some new best guesses might have been made.   We all
>>> know these dates are very movable and for very good reasons.   No  
>>> one is
>>> pushing for low quality, hurried up junk.   But those best guesses by
>>> people in the know about how the processes if moving along are helpful
>>> for those of use out here in the hinterland trying to make it through
>>> each day.
>>>       
>> There was nothing snippy in that post, it was just succinct.  By now,  
>> people in the know have learned that it really will be done "when  
>> it's done".
>>
>>     
>
> Read it from the point of view of a person who is not an insider and
> is seeking a little help in keeping their FreeBSD life together.
> When someone asks for a "guess" and the response sounds more like
> 'get out of my face' than anything with useful content, it is snippy.
> I could have used a stronger term.
>
> As I said, we know and even newbies can learn, with considerate
> explanitory responses, that no absolute date can realistically
> be named - that there is justifiably more concern about quality
> than making a particular 'release date'.   But some running info
> on how it is going is helpful - actually reassuring, to those of
> us out of the loop.  It needn't be anything elaborate.  
>
> Anyway, the important issue here is refusing to consider the effects
> of the response when replying to a posted question, even when it is
> a somewhat unenlightened question.  
>
> ////jerry
>
>   
Dear all
In my question, I not meaned Freebsd release is slow or something like 
that :D
Just want to know it release date for reference and tell it's release 
date to my friends who
are using it also :)



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