From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 4:38:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from twizors.rug.ac.be (twizors.rug.ac.be [157.193.55.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F83337B8CB for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:38:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ageorges@twizors.rug.ac.be) Received: from localhost (ageorges@localhost) by twizors.rug.ac.be (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02372; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:44:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ageorges@twizors.rug.ac.be) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:44:20 +0100 (CET) From: Andy Georges To: Thomas Uhrfelt Cc: "'Richard Wackerbarth'" , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: SV: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions for impro In-Reply-To: <01BF93FE.6BFBBEE0.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > "-RELEASE" is not a state. It is a point in time. > > The other terms refer to the continuum between releases. i used to have some problems understanding the difference between -STABLE and -RELEASE but i think this points it out nicely > I have no religious views at all on the subject, so either way is fine by > me. The reason why it's called CURRENT I belive is due to the fact thats > where the focal point on the project is. New things gets adopted and > basically - that's where FreeBSD is, not neccessarily the users. -CURRENT looks like a good name to me, but one should still inform new users that it's the edge. Once you have read that in the handbook or someplace else, i feel you know enough to decide with what you'll go. -- zors To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message