From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 17:36:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snarf.osdn.com (snarf.osdn.com [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8284D37B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:36:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snarf.osdn.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f271amd51862; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:36:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: by guinness.osdn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F3FD41990; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:36:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:36:45 -0500 From: Jim Mock To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: Eric Wuehler , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4x Release Tags Message-ID: <20010306203645.B13559@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: <3AA57523.DCD50F28@cenus.com> <002701c0a69b$7793a3c0$035778d8@sherline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <002701c0a69b$7793a3c0$035778d8@sherline.net>; from jgowdy@home.com on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 04:13:42PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 at 16:13:42 -0800, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > Being new to FreeBSD - I've been using it for about 6 months now - > > could I get some clarification on the 4-x release tags and the > > function of such? Apologies for the verbosity up front :-) > > > > After playing with 4.0 for a while, I installed FreeBSD 4.2 clean, > > so that's my starting point. I recently discovered the cvsup > > utility - I'd like to move to 4.3 using cvsup. > > I too would like to move to FreeBSD 4.3 using cvsup, however, since > it's not out yet we're both out of luck. Sure it is... % uname -n -r -s FreeBSD guinness.osdn.com 4.3-BETA % ;-) > The newest version is 4.2-STABLE. Which has now become 4.3-BETA. - jim -- - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message