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authorJordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1995-08-26 12:07:06 +0000
committerJordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1995-08-26 12:07:06 +0000
commit46babfb66f4aab7fe1edaf2ab72d4afaa79ee875 (patch)
tree6a2789f489533db1e2db92b7970f0730c1035b5a
parenta50f9f1dfc1d269951bdf509802a0ea7322d58fa (diff)
Notes
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diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/history.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/history.sgml
index 4cdce4464d843..f6f7716fd9618 100644
--- a/share/doc/handbook/history.sgml
+++ b/share/doc/handbook/history.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: history.sgml,v 1.3 1995/07/07 22:25:51 jfieber Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: history.sgml,v 1.4 1995/07/28 23:09:28 jkh Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<sect><heading>A brief history of FreeBSD<label id="history"></heading>
@@ -24,9 +24,7 @@ we were in unanimous agreement that something had to be done and
decided to try and assist Bill by providing this interim "cleanup"
snapshot. Those plans came to a rude halt when Bill Jolitz suddenly
decided to withdraw his sanction from the project and without any
-clear indication of what would be done instead (and it was, in fact,
-to be another full year before he was even heard from in public
-again!).
+clear indication of what would be done instead.
It didn't take us long to decide that the goal remained worthwhile
even without Bill's support, and so we adopted the name "FreeBSD",
@@ -81,14 +79,13 @@ easier to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 release in June of 1995.
Where to from here? Well, we intend to release FreeBSD 2.1 sometime
in September of 1995 and have reasonable expectations that it will
meet or exceed all of the standards for quality we set with FreeBSD
-1.1.5.1 back in July of 1994. From there, we'll probably go to a
-two-track scheme with a "stable" branch of FreeBSD and an
-"experimental" branch, where development can continue at its usually
-rapid pace without penalizing those who just want a stable, working
-system without too much excitement. We also intend to focus on any
-remaining areas of weakness, like documentation or missing drivers,
-and steadily increase the overall quality and feature set of the
-system well into 1996 and beyond.
+1.1.5.1 back in July of 1994. From there, we'll probably continue our now
+two-track scheme of a "stable" branch of FreeBSD and an "experimental"
+branch, where development can continue at its usually rapid pace without
+penalizing those who just want a working system without too much excitement.
+We also intend to focus on any remaining areas of weakness, like documentation
+or missing drivers, and steadily increase the overall quality and feature set
+of the system well into 1996 and beyond.
Jordan