From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 23:18:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03509 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03496 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00670; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:18:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Hartzell, Dave CServ" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about releases In-Reply-To: <320277C9@msmail.sdstate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Hartzell, Dave CServ wrote: > What are the diffrences in the SNAPSHOT, RELEASE and CURRENT distributions of > FreeBSD 2.X? RELEASEs are official releases of FreeBSD. Fully built, distributed on CDROM & all normal channels. Rigorously tested. Good for all environments including production systems. SNAPSHOTs are pseudo-RELEASEs; they're built as releases but are not distributed as widely. Could be called 'beta' versions, used to test important improvements, general system stability in a wider context. (Some SNAPs are available on CD too) May contain subtle bugs. CURRENT is where FreeBSD developent stands at that moment. It includes all work committed to the source tree. It is not as well tested as SNAPs, and is subject to problems, sometimes serious. Used by developers and those interested in the latest code. SNAPs and RELEASEs are built from -current. (This was not true for 2.1.5, which generated from a now defunct branch called STABLE). Hope this clears things up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major