From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 09:30:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30DF816A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:30:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E07C43F93 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:30:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:33:01 -0600 Message-ID: <3FB3BF91.2070104@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:29:53 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stormjumper References: <024501c3aa06$4025ca50$6305a8c0@hockjim.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <024501c3aa06$4025ca50$6305a8c0@hockjim.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Nov 2003 17:33:01.0968 (UTC) FILETIME=[30177900:01C3AA0C] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD: diff between RELEASE and STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:30:15 -0000 stormjumper wrote: >hmm, > >thanks Johan > >somebody, anybody, correct me if i'm wrong pls. > >does this imply that RELEASE is more stable than STABLE? > >thanks > > More or less, yes. -STABLE is stable, but changes to the code are put in from time to time to make progress toward the *next* RELEASE. In the event someone manages to accidentally mangle a line of code, it might not get noticed until you sync your source and buildworld, etc. Then you get some message "syntax error in foofile on line xxx" and 'stop in /usr/src' ... not too much fun. Even worse, it might build but not run correctly. FWIW, this has never happened to me, and I've been using -STABLE on production servers for over a year. -RELEASE code is -STABLE that is frozen, double and triple checked and allowed to 'simmer' for a few weeks to see if any such problems appear, basically. The guys work pretty hard to make sure that it's gonna be acceptable to stamp "RELEASE" on it and not ruin the OS's image as a strong, stable, modern and powerful OS. HTH,