svn commit: r41755 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction

[Eitan Adler]

On 28 May 2013 20:15, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2013, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
>> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml
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>> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml
>> Mon May 27 20:04:01 2013        (r41754)
>> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml
>> Mon May 27 20:27:03 2013        (r41755)
>> @@ -654,83 +644,13 @@
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>> +      <para>Since that time, &os; has made a series of releases each
>> +       time improving the stability, speed, and feature set of the
>> +       previous version.</para>
>
>
> I don't think this is true, in particular I think that many sites considered
> 5.0 to be a regression (presumably due to the effects of Giant).

When writing this the 5.x branch explicitly came to my mind.   I was
not sure how to address it though.

> It would probably be better to say that the series of releases strove to
> produce a modern, stable, and fast OS, or something similar.

I'd prefer if someone with a bit more historical background than I
have would write a paragraph discussing the changes between 4, 5, and
6.


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