From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-02-20T23:48:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11170] Re: Ruby in the (almost) news

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Dennis Decker Jensen wrote:
> Regarding version numbering, I would consider 1.7, 1.7.2, 1.7.4, etc.
> to be "stable" and 1.6.9, 1.7.1, 1.7.3, etc. to be "unstable". Is my
> assumptions right on this?

No!
1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 ... are stable versions.
1.3, 1.5, 1.7 ... are unstable.

> I've simply not been able to decide on which OS/distro to start with.
> Mandrake, Slackware, Suse, Debian, Redhat and FreeBSD have all been
> under more or less consideration. They are now narrowed down to Debian
> and FreeBSD, even thoug Slackware is tempting too.

Try NetBSD :)

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Michael Neumann